Wood and ivory specimen with eight-fold helices, made with turning lathe

This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Wood and ivory specimen with eight-fold helices, made with turning lathe

Details

Category:: Hand and Machine Tools

Object Number:: 1928-1162/3

Materials:: ivory and ebony

Measurements:: overall: 58 mm 14 mm, 0.008 kg

type:: specimen

credit:: Holtzapffel and Company

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero . Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.

Wood and ivory specimen with eight-fold helices, made with turning lathe

Details

Related Objects

horological rubber

wheel cutting machine

horological gravers

Portrait bust of James Watt

Folding joiner's work bench

Smoothing plane