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Non-Commercial Use
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Category
Mathematics
18
Collection
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
5
Maker
W F Stanley and Company Limited
4
Adams, George
1
George Adams
1
Heath, Thomas
1
Holtzapffel and Company
1
Maker unknown
1
Thomas Heath
1
On Display
Science Museum
3
Energy Hall: James Watt and our World
1
Making the Modern World Gallery
1
Science City
1
Object type
dividers (compass)
18
drawing instruments
9
drawing instruments; dividers (compass)
7
components
3
components; dividers (compass)
3
drawing instrument sets
3
compasses (drawing instruments)
2
compasses (drawing instruments); dividers (compass)
2
beam compasses
1
drawing instrument sets; dividers (compass)
1
Place
London
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London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom; Great Turnstile
4
London, England, United Kingdom
3
England
2
England, United Kingdom
2
Germany
1
Italy
1
Netherlands
1
Netherlands; Germany
1
United Kingdom
1
Material
steel (metal)
6
complete
4
steel
3
brass
2
leather
2
case, leather
1
copper (alloy)
1
felt
1
ivory
1
mahogany
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Pair of seventeenth-century dividers
1600-1699
Pocket case of silver mathematical instruments
1728-1733
Compasses and dividers (58 pieces on board)
1876
Combination dividers
1772-1795
Point, one of three, for enlarged sectional compass dividers
1876
Point, one of three, for enlarged sectional compass dividers
1876
Pair of steel dividers, unsigned, United Kingdom, 1701-1800.
Steel dividers
1701-1800
Dividers with rack-and-pinion separation adjustment and micrometer screw
Steel dividers
Combination compasses with dividers and ivory scale: in small pocket case
One handed steel dividers
Spacing dividers
1800-1850
Case, for drawing instruments, with two dividers, a folding rule and a disc
Single-handed steel dividers
1701-1800
Steel dividers
Sighting sector/dividers probably Dutch or German
1600-1700
Point, one of three, for enlarged sectional compass dividers
1876