This object is part of a collection relating to the history and development of computing and other information technology assembled by Assoc Professor Allan Bromley of Sydney University, comprising of calculators, mechanical and electronic analogue computers, computer components, kit computers, education computers, and associated ephemera.

Allan Bromley was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sydney Basser Department of Computer Science from 1978 until his untimely death in August 2002. He specialised in Computer Architecture, Computer Logic and in particular the History of Computing. He was regarded as the world authority on Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines (instigating the rebuilt of DE2 at the Science Museum London) and the Ankithera Mechanism and had extensive knowledge on calculators, analogue computers, logic, stereopsis, totalisators, clocks and time keeping and mechanical engineering.

Stanley, London, UK, 1916, 1949

Used in surveying

Cylindrical slide rule with case and instruction manuals, Fuller, bakelite / wood / metal / paper, made by Stanley, London, England, 1916

Fuller-Bakewell type cylindrical slide rule for surveyors and engineers with cos.cos and sin.cos scales for stadia reduction.

Main scale somewhat marked with age and movement no longer free.

Originally used by the Municipal Council of Sydney - Electricity Department.
Testing Branch - Calculating Section

Made: 1916

2010/1/256

1916

110 mm

118 mm