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Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Steel dividers

Dividers with rack-and-pinion separation adjustment and micrometer screw

One of three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott

One of three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott

Rectangular drawing instrument in brass

1865

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

Panmetron, "universal scale" for measurement and calculation invented by James Jordan

1823

Patent protractor in form of set square

1885-1895

Semi-circular protractor

drawing instrument sets; dividers (compass)

Set of drawing instruments in mahogany case

Trigonometer serving as protractor and parallel rule

1902-1920

Brass protractor with two blades for setting out and measuring angles

1740-1749

Protractor and scale

Protractor, silver 2 1/16 inches diameter

1740-1760

Six inch protractor

Gunter's scale, early example, boxwood, 2' long

Gunner's rule incorporating Brigadier Borgard's Scale for English Weight & Foot Measure

Equarrimetre, form of rectangular protractor with sliding cursor

1918-1922

Semicircular rolling protractor rule

Geometrical pen

"Keith's Improv'd Scale"

Standard 6" diagonal scale in case; brass 6 7/8" x 3 7/16" screwed by 4 screws to mahogany base with a mahogany cover

Protractor with plummet clinometer

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Wooden scale ruler

1839-1865

Cased set of varnished card drawing scales by Holtzapffel & Co.

1839-1900

Rectangular protractor and plain scale

1800-1819

Circular protractor, engraved: 'Dollond London'

Marquois scales

Semicircular protractor

Pair of compasses in case

Circular protractor

Circular protractor 7 7/8 inch

1751-1773

Combination dividers

1772-1795

Gauger's scale; boxwood; 2 foot

1808-1844

Drawing pen for red ink

1876

Lithographic drawing pen

1876

Steel drawing pen

1876

"Best" patent enlarging and reducing scale made by W.F.Stanley

Steel dividers by W and C Wynn

1787-1899

Protractor scale

1876

Ivory protractor by Ross, London

1830-1859

Protractor scale

1876

Tripartite semi-circular protractor

1791-1859

Stanley's 5-inch improved drawing pen

1876

Stanley's 5 3/4-inch improved drawing pen

1876

Stanley's 5 3/4-inch improved drawing pen

1876