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Books on Measuring

Jane & Mark Rees, THE RULE BOOK - Measuring for the Trades Ref: RB

This long awaited book focuses on the measuring tools used by tradesmen and professionals in their everyday work, on the trades in which specific tools were used and how these tools were made and by whom.

This is a wonderful resource book for collectors and researchers.

Special features include illustrated appendixes, a checklist of rule makers and dealers, a full index, and a separate index of names.

476 pages.
Over 1000 illustrations - 100's in full-color,
Sewn-cloth & jacketed-hardcover.

Reserve your copy now at the special launch price of £67.50 (£79.50) only 50 copies available at this pre-publication price. This price includes shipping to mainland UK. Please enquire for shipping into Europe.

Price: £67.50

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C. L. Berger, INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION Ref: CHT0335

This is 1900 illustrated catalogue and handbook of engineers' and surveyors instruments of precision by the famous Boston maker. It also describes calibration and use.

Price: £16.05

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Florian Cajori, A HISTORY OF THE LOGARITHMIC SLIDE RULE AND ALLIED INSTRUMENTS Ref: CHT0183

Catalogues apart, for many years there was little information available on the slide rule other than this classic. This reprint also includes Cajori's 1920 work 'On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule, during the 17th century'. There is an introduction by Dr Robert K. Otnes, editor of the Journal of the Oughtred Society.

Price: £16.50

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Kenneth L. Cope, AMERICAN MACHINIST'S TOOLS: An Illustrated Directory of Patents Ref: CHT9332

Over 1000 fully indexed and illustrated patents covering all American machinist's tools patented before 1905 and all the important ones between 1906 and 1916.

Price: £19.95

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Kenneth L. Cope, MAKERS OF AMERICAN MACHINIST'S TOOLS. Ref: CHT9334

Directory of 350 companies that produced levels, protractors, bevels, calipers, dividers, trammels, surface and marking gauges, speed indicators, rules and tool chests. Descriptions plus 100s of illustrations.

Price: £19.50

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Kenneth L. Cope, MORE MAKERS OF AMERICAN MACHINIST'S TOOLS Ref: CHT9333

100s of additional makers to add to Cope's two other books on this subject and new material on the five major makers: Browne & Sharpe, Sawyer, Standard Tools, L. S. Starrett and Stevens. New makers listed include Ames, Alfred Baker, George Bates, G. L. Chamberlain, Lindquist, Washburn, Hubbard & Curtis and Adolph Heydrich.

Price: £15.95

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W. & L. E. Gurley, MANUAL OF AMERICAN ENGINEERS & SURVEYORS INSTRUMENTS Ref: CHT0182

Reprint of the 21st catalogue (1874) with the price list and with instructions on how to calibrate Gurley instruments.

Price: £15.95

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Peter M.Hopp, SLIDE RULES, Their History, Models & Makers Ref: CHT9318

Covering the period from the instrument's invention in the early 17th century to the present day. All information on models, designs and manufacturers is cross-referenced. In all, several thousand slide rule descriptions are catalogued, and 400 designs and 750 makers are listed with 500 patents worldwide (UK, US, European and Japanese) including dates and locations. The book gives a history of the slide rule and biographies of some of the influential figures in its design, also descriptions of scales and gauge marks. There is a section on the care and restoration of slide rules, a glossary of terms used, 8 appendixes and 18 tables presenting information formatted to aid in the assimilation of the enormous amount of information presented. The comprehensive bibliography lists almost 700 books and articles.

Price: £24.95

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Robert Riddell, THE SLIDE RULE Simplified, Explained and Illustrated for the Mechanical Trades Ref: CHT9004

Reprinted from the 1881 edition, which dealt with the use of the first standard slide rule made in the United States: a Mannheim-type made by Stephens Co. The book was aimed primarily at carpenters and joiners and contains a wealth of information from making the calculations necessary for the construction of circular porcto calculating the wages owed. The plates illustrate various geometric and trigonometric calculations used in construction.

Price: £10.95

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Andrew Robinson, THE STORY OF MEASUREMENT Ref: CHT9341

A fully illustrated guide to all things measurable: length, area, volume, angle, weight, language and time. The book shows the ideas behind units of measurement and measuring instruments and how they are applied. It spans all cultures with a very wide selection of illustrations and covering a vast array of subjects: from the earliest currency to the birth of the metre. Part history and part science it explores everything measurable from the force of hurricanes to air pressure, radio activity and music and shows devices such as the plumb bob shown on Egyptian tombs to the Hubble space telescope.

Price: £19.95

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Don Rosebrook, AMERICAN LEVELS AND THEIR MAKERS Vol I, New England Ref: CHT0181

This does for levels what Roger Smith's books have done for metal planes and Lamond's book for spokeshaves. Starting with the earliest known level maker in 1743 it proceeds through the mid-20th century, and Dr Rosebrook provides the historical background and a full description of each maker's products together with an indication of the level's rarity. Over 1700 patents were researched for this book, and many of the 100s of photographs were taken from the author's collection of over 1000 levels. The book contains an extensive section on the Stanley Rule & Level Co., the development of the Stratton Level Co., and Goodell-Pratt and Millers Falls, Starrett, Chapin and a listing of some 80 other companies and individuals.

Price: £45.00

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Don Rosebrook, AMERICAN LEVELS PATENTS Illustrated and Explained. Vol I, New England Ref: CHT9336

Companion to American Levels and Their Makers, Vol I. 210 patents are pictured with explanations which are keyed to the patent drawings. They illustrate the major contributions of Davis, Traut, Stratton and Starrett among others. Each patent is triply indexed by date, patentee and category.

Price: £18.95

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IJ. Schuitema & H. van Herwijnen, CALCULATING ON THE SLIDE RULE Ref: CHT9343

An overview of slide rule collecting by the man with one of the largest of collections in the world with details of the many different kinds of slide rule that exist. Accompanying the book is a CD with an enormous number of colour photographs of different slide rules taken from all angles and accompanied by a description of each one. There are many unusual uses for specialised rules here.

Price: £18.50

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R. Shepherd/D. Von Jezierski, SLIDE RULES, A Journey Through Three Centuries Ref: CHT0180

Published in Germany in 1977, this English translation and Hopp's work are the first major books on the history of the slide rule since Cajori's in the early part of the 20th century. The author traces the history of the rule from the17th century through its highest point in the 19th and 20th centuries to its sudden demise in the 1970s. The author discusses various slide rule components, manufacturing processes and the history of the manufacturers and their products

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Gerald Le Turner, SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 1500 - 1900 Ref: CHT9337

An Introduction. This book describes and illustrates a variety of instruments made from brass, ivory and wood used in all aspects of scientific activity: Astronomical, and time telling devices; Navigational aids; Surveying; Drawing and calculating; Optical; Philosophical and medical instruments. Practical advice on dealing with instruments and how to check their authenticity. Written by a Professor of Imperial College and President of the Scientific Instrument Society.

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