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Fuller's spiral slide rule
Fuller's spiral slide rule

Fuller's spiral slide rule

Date1894-1895
Inventory Number1989-1-0038
ClassificationSlide Rule
Subject
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensionsslide rule: 43 × 8 × 9 cm (16 15/16 × 3 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
        case: 10 × 45 × 11 cm (3 15/16 × 17 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
        Material
          Accessoriescase
          DescriptionThis spiral slide rule consists of three concentric cylinders. The outermost papier-maché cylinder is covered with the spiral slide rule scale. This cylinder is mounted on felt and smoothly slides over another cylinder within it.

          This middle cyclinder is covered with paper printed with various mathematical and engineering tables. The cylinder is fixed to the wooden base and handle of the slide rule. The base supports a vertical brass index, which terminates in a point.

          The innermost cylinder slides inside the middle cylinder, which is lined with thick felt. This cylinder is made of brass. The top of the cylinder is fixed to a wooden cap that funnels gracefully into an opening that enables one to look down the barrel of the cylinder. The wood cap carries the primary brass index for the slide rule. This brass index is graduated and has several notches.

          The foot of the outermost cylinder and matching stop on the wooden base are both brass.

          The mahogany case has a lock, but the key is missing.
          Signedprinted at the end of the scale along the bottom of the outermost cylinder: ENTD. STATS. HALL. / STANLEY, Maker, LONDON
          Inscribedprinted on tradecard pasted in case lid: To H.M.Government Science & Art Depnt. Council of India, Admiralty, &c. / MADE BY / W. F. STANLEY, / Optical, Philosophical & Mathematical / INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURER, / ENGINE DIVIDER, &c. / MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT, GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, W.C. stenciled in Gothic letters in black paint on case lid: Calculator on metal tag screwed to case lid: HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 801 serial number stamped on index: 936 printed at the beginning of the scale on the outermost cylinder: FULLERS SPIRAL SLIDE RULE
          ProvenanceFrom Pierce Hall, Division of Applied Sciences; Bob Burns, Harvard University Police Department; gift to CHSI, 1989.
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          W. F. Stanley & Company, Ltd.
          Date: 1900
          Accessories: wood case with brass mounting bracket; paper ruler with metric equivalents
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          Date: 1893-1894
          Accessories: case, key
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          Date: circa 1920
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          John E. Fuller
          Date: 1845
          Accessories: cardboard envelope with fabric tie (from Harvard University Libraries); two additional Palmer's scales, see 5464 and 5466
          Object number: 5465
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          John E. Fuller
          Date: 1847
          Accessories: cardboard envelope with fabric tie (from Harvard University Libraries); two additional Palmer's scales, see 5464 and 5465
          Object number: 5466
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          Accessories: instruction booklet, information sheet; box
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