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Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch - in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

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Scales shown:

Hamburgh - Inch divided into 8 parts. 1 inch ≈ 23.2 mm
Austrian - Inch divided into 8 parts. 1 inch ≈ 25.8 mm
Itallian - Inch divided into 8 parts. 1 inch ≈ 28.3 mm
Bremen - Inch divided into 10 parts. 1 inch ≈ 23.7 mm
Swedish - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 24.3 mm
Turkish - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 31.3 mm
Bavarian - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 24.0 mm
Spanish - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 23.0 mm
Portuguese - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 27.0 mm
Moscow - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 27.7 mm
Russian - Vershok divided into 8 parts. 1 vershok ≈ 44.1 mm
Amsterdam - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 23.5 mm
Rhynland - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 26.1 mm
French - Inch divided into 12 parts. 1 inch ≈ 27.0 mm
Fr. Metre - Centimetres divided into Millimetres.
English - Inch divided into 32 parts. 1 inch ≈ 25.3 mm

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