Slide rule

Description

P241 log log duplex slide rule in case, plastic, used at Dounreay Nuclear Power Plant, Caithness, Scotland, by British Thornton, Manchester, late 1960s

Museum reference

T.2011.222

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Slide rule

Production information

British Thornton, Manufacturer
Manchester, Lancashire, England, Northern Europe

Date

Late 1960s

Materials

Plastic, Plastic

Associations

Dounreay Nuclear Power Plant, Dounreay, Caithness, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Power of Ten: Inventing Logarithms (21 Mar 2014 - 31 Aug 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Wetton, J., 'Scientific Instrument Making in Manchester, 1870 - 1940', Scientific Instrument Society Bulletin, 54, September 1997