British Thornton Mark Two Slide Rule
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The Thornton Mark Two is also known as the AD 150. British Thornton "AD150 Advanced” open frame simplex, ten inch slide rule made of plastic. The scales are LL1, LL2, LL3, A{B, C1, K, C}D, S, ST, T. It has the usual hard plastic case. On these "Mark 2” rules the differential trig scales had been dropped and this rule has a third log log scale.
A slide rule is a mechanical analogue computer which was one of the primary methods of calculation up until the mid-20th Century with the introduction of the desktop calculator and electronic computers. They were used for calculations including multiplication and division, as well as functions such as exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry.
A.G. Thornton Ltd was a British manufacturer of slide rules, drawing, surveying and scientific Instruments. The company was founded in 1880 by Alexander George Thornton. Thornton’s took over The Precision Instrument Company (PIC) in 1901 and continued to use the PIC brand name until the 1970s. In the 1960s they introduced slide rules made of plastic, and the firm was renamed British Thornton. They stopped manufacturing slide rules in 1980. British Thornton merged with Education and Science Furniture (ESF) in January 1992 and moved to Burley, Wharfedale in Yorkshire.
Our slide rule is complete with hard case and instructions, and was very kindly donated by Mike Edwards. Manufacturer: British Thornton Other Systems Related To British Thornton Mark Two Slide Rule:
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