Wooden box for Volutor

PART OF:: Volutor, instrument for drawing spirals

Made:: 1857-1867 in United Kingdom

patentee:: Henry Johnson

maker:: Hoffmann, F.

Wooden box for Volutor, patented by Henry Johnson

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Wooden box for Volutor, patented by Henry Johnson
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Wooden box for Volutor, patented by Henry Johnson, and made by F. Hoffman, London, England, 1857

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Category:: Mathematics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1980-1175/2

Materials:: mahogany (wood)

type:: box - container and volutor

credit:: Wellcome Trustees

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