B chapter.indd - Charles Babbage Institute - University of Minnesota

Erwin Tomash Library
Brasser, Franciscus Breckenridge, William Edwin
Although printed a hundred years after Adam Riese’s,
the book is reminiscent of his publications, with a title
page portrait of Brasser that is similar to the one used by
Riese in 1550.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Table abacus
Conversion table
Numerical symbols
Numeral symbols, B 233
Table abacus, B 233
B 234
Brearley, Harry C.
Time telling through the ages
Year: 1919
Place: New York
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co. for Robert H. Ingersoll &
Bro.
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Figures: 24 photolith plates
Binding: original cloth boards
Pagination: pp. 294
Size: 235x160 mm
This is a history of clock and watch making from the
earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century.
A series of appendices describe how a modern watch
movement operates and provide a list of manufacturers
and an Encyclopedic Dictionary of names and terms
associated with the subject. Examples of timekeeping
and mechanisms are provided on the photolith plates.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 235
Breckenridge, William Edwin (1869–)
B 234
The log log duplex slide rule. A self teaching manual
with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points.
Year: 1926
Place: Hoboken
Publisher: Keuffel & Esser
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original printed stiff paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. [2], 138, [2]
Size: 201x133 mm
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