Artifact Details

Title

Treatise on a box of instruments and the slide-rule : for the use of gaugers, engineers, seamen, and students, A

Catalog Number

B159.81

Type

Document

Description

A table of contents is found on pages 11 - 12. The last 24 page section is a bibliography of other works published by Henry Carey Baird in his "Practical and Scientific Books" series.

Date

1864

Author

Kentish, Thomas

Publisher

Henry Carey Baird

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Identifying Numbers

Previous Accession number B1002.98

Extent

228, 24 p.

Dimensions

overall: 1 in x 5 in x 7 in

Category

Book

Collection Title

Gwen Bell artifact and book collection

Series Title

Algorithms, tables, and history of calculation books

Credit

The Gwen Bell Early Book Collection of Algorithms, Tables, and History of Calculations

Lot Number

X7090.2014