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Testing, measuring and design instruments
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Box for Ruler
Cap
Case for Ruler
Chart Rule
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Ruler of Pilots
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Ruler of Pilots
Jacket
Parallel rule
relic, ship: rod
Rule
Rule, parallel
Rule, slide
Ruler
Ruler for surveying instrument
Ruler for survey Instrument
Ruling pen
Slide rule
Slide Rule
Steel Rule
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's: chart rule
Trigonometer Slide Rule
Trigonometric Slide Rule
Trousers
water transport: fighting vessel: brig
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
written communication t&e: ruler
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card
Card
cardboard
cellulose nitrate
inorganic: plastic
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ivory (CITES)
metal
nickle bronze
organic: wool
organic: wool: organic: cotton
paper
plastic
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silver
steel
synthetic: plastic
wood
wood (?)
wood: boxwood
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Display - ROG
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Aristo
Bate, Robert
C. H. Bernard & Sons Ltd
Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd.
Canivet
Decca
Dobbie McInnes Ltd
Dring & Fage
F. Robson & Co
Gordon, A. M.
James Chesterman and Co
J W Smith
Smith, J.
Unknown
Worthington, Nathaniel
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Coventry, Warwickshire, England
England
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Inconstant (1811)
Lady of St Kilda fl.1837
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Acland, Thomas Dyke
Airy, George Biddell
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bradley, Reverend James
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
D. Mitchell
Henry Austin Fraser
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
The Corporation of Trinity House
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Froude's slide rule (Rule, slide)
Metal ruler (Ruler)
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Case for Ruler
Ruler
Ruler
Case for Ruler
Ruler
Ruler
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Ruler
'Watney's Ales Stout & Lager' plastic rule (Rule)
Rule, slide
Rule, slide
Slide Rule
Parallel rule
Chart Rule
Trinity House uniform (Jacket)
Plastic rule: Player's No. 6 (Rule)
Freeboard calculating slide-rule (Rule, slide)
Rule, slide
Rule
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