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Fowler "long scale" (Instructions available) | "Pocket watch" type circular rule. | Original instructions. | ![]() |
Otis King (Instructions available) | Cylindrical rule | Original instructions. | ![]() |
F B Cox folding slide rule | Two foot, two fold rule, (Coggeshall rule). Also rules by Aston and Higgison. | ![]() |
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Buck and Hickman timber rule | A Coggeshall type rule | ![]() |
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Lorkin | Ship's mast design | ![]() |
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Roberts | Everards type rule | ![]() |
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Unnamed | A tin-plate rule | Instructions. | ![]() |
Sector | A forerunner of the slide rule. | Full instructions. | ![]() |
Hemmi No 32 | A 4" rule with a magnifying cursor | ![]() |
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Tavernier-Gravet | An early French rule with metal cursor | ![]() |
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Tavernier-Gravet | This rule is even earlier than the one above and has double-length scales. | ![]() |
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Kern | Stadia rule | Instruction for stadia scales. | ![]() |
Cardboard rule | No maker given | ![]() |
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Computing Scale | Aaron Palmer | ![]() |
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Calculigraph | An early French "pocket watch" type rule. | ![]() |
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Routledge Engineer's Rule | An early type of 2-foot 2-fold rule. | ![]() |
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Unknown maker | Timber rule | ![]() |
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Unkown maker | Russian circular rule | Basic instructions |
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Ivory Soho rule | Bryan, Manchester | ![]() |
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Boxwood Soho rule | Elliot, London | ![]() |
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Multi-purpose 4-faced rule | Unnamed | ![]() |
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Unknown manufacturer | Gunter scale | ![]() |
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Slide rule plate | Not a slide rule but a picture of one |
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Simple rule patented by Dr Seehase | An advertising rule made of cardboard and plastic. | ![]() |
Notes:
Original instructions = scanned version of maker's original instructions
Full instructions = complete instructions based on book or similar.
Instructions = instructions based on my own research.
For some rules instructions are given for special scales only.