- "Tech Musings" (PDF), Tech Musings, 145 "Chinese
Scales". www.shumatech.com. "Protocols of
Digital Scales". Yadro.de.
Archived from the
original on 2013-12-09...
- "polymetric
comp****" c. 1670,
including a
scale for
constructing regular polygons. The
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei added further scales in the 1590s...
- The
reduction comp**** or
proportional dividers is a
geometry tool with asymmetric-length
branches to
allow performing homothetic transformations, reproducing...
- (graphical) bar
scales. For example, some
modern British maps have
three bar
scales, one each for kilometres,
miles and
nautical miles. A
lexical scale in a language...
-
provides an
optimum surface for pen and
pencil drafting. It
allows comp****es and
dividers to be used
without damaging the
wooden surface of the board. A board...
-
lines cross G,Y,P and M.
Foster Serles Dialling Scales (1638)
Foster is
credited for
producing a set of
scales to ****ist in the
laying out of the hour line...
-
surface with a pre-printed
comp**** rose of
polar coordinates about a
central point,
often including adjacent linear scales, and
sometimes a time/speed/distance...
- course.
Dividers can be used for the
measurement of
lengths of
lines on a
chart and
approximating the
lengths of non-linear
lines on a chart.
Dividers can...
- that can be
converted to a
current of that magnitude. The use of
current dividers,
often called shunts,
allows a
meter to be
calibrated to
measure larger...
-
available in the
Middle Ages are
believed to have been a ruler, a pair of
dividers, a pen, and inks of
various colors.
Drawing probably started with the windrose...
