US Patent: 331,345
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| Linear or Other Scale
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Patentee:
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| Charles A.L. Totten (exact or similar names) - Garden City, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Feb. 01, 1884 |
| Granted: |
Dec. 01, 1885 |
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Ralph Brendler
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Description: |
| This is a simple design that calls for a different method of graduating a rule. It subdivides the unit length into fifths and twenty-fifths, as opposed to the normal twelfths/eighths (English) or tenths/hundredths (Metric).
According to the inventor this new scale has some wondrous mathematical properties (to which he goes into some quite excruciating detail in the claims), but overall it does not seem to do anything out of the ordinary. |
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