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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
The object of the author was to devise a form of slide-rule which should be small enough for the pocket, and yet be a powerful instrument.
The first proposed form was to have a pair of watch-spring tapes graduated logarithmically, and coiled on spring bobbins side by side. There was to be an arrangement for clipping the tapes together and unwinding them simultaneously. Two modifications of this idea were given.
The second form was the logarithmic graduation of several coils of a helix engraved on a brass cylinder. On the brass cylinder was to fit a glass one, similarly graduated.
To avoid the parallax due to the elevation of the glass above the other scale, the author proposed that the glass cylinder might be replaced by a metal corkscrew sliding in a deep worm, by which means the two scales might be brought flush with one another.
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