Textile Calculator
Category
Technological items
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
32 cm (Height) x 12.2 cm (Depth); 32.2 cm (Length)
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Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1452353
Summary
A textile calculator in a large wooden box, which opens on hinges to show the calculator in the base and a small writing surface in the lid covered in black vinyl. The calculator itself is round and there is a brass ring by which it is fixed into the box. There are three concentric dials - two of which are moved by turning appropriately lettered knobs in the corners of the box, the needle in the centre is also moved in this way. The dials are all numbered and the outside one is labelled with various types of hanks. On the bottom of the base is a stand which comes out of the box by hinges enbabling the writing surface to be placed flat and the calculator almost perpendicular. (The box also locks). The stand is held under the box when not in use by a small, decorated brass catch, which itself swivels. 'Lord's Patent calclulator' appears in the middle of the calculator.
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