6.2 Oldest Rules
The 25 oldest rules in the collection are presented below. For items in this list for which only a date range or educated guess (circa) is known, the earliest year is used.
| Maker | Model | Year | Type | Mat | L0 | Lx | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob and Halse | Sector | 1809 | L | iv | 5.00 | 12 | |
| Gill | Comparative Rule | 1816-1824 | L | wd | 9.00 | 9 | |
| Gill | Proof Rule | 1816-1824 | L | wd | 9.00 | 9 | |
| noID | Gunter Rule |
|
1820 | L | wd | 12.00 | 24 |
| Kutz | Ullaging Rule | 1824-1827 | L | wd | 12.00 | 25 | |
| Belcher Bros. | Engineer’s Rule | 1831-1843 | L | wd | 10.25 | 12 | |
| Davies | Routledge Engineer |
|
1840 | L | wd | 11.00 | 12 |
| Palmer | Palmer’s Computing Scale | 1843 | C | pp | 27.00 | 11 | |
| Palmer | Palmer’s Pocket Scale | 1845 | C | pp | 10.00 | 3 | |
| Dring and Fage | Excise Officers Rule | 1845-1849 | L | wd | 8.00 | 10 | |
| Stanley | No. 15 |
|
1858 | L | wd | 11.00 | 12 |
| noID | Comparative Rule |
|
1880 | L | wd | 9.00 | 9 |
| Tavernier-Gravet | Soho | 1882-1900 | L | wd | 8.00 | 8 | |
| Dring and Fage | Inland Revenue Rule | 1883-1902 | L | wd | 12.00 | 24 | |
| Dennert & Pape | No. 1 | 1888 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| Faber | 360 | 1897 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| Faber | 365 | 1898-1900 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| E.S.A. London | Harrow Mark Reducer | 1898-1925 | L | wd | 11.00 | 36 | |
| Scofield | Engineer’s Slide Rule | 1901 | L | wd | 22.00 | 24 | |
| Kolesch | Mannheim | 1901-1904 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| Dietzgen | 1765 | 1902-1912 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| Faber | 350 | 1903 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| K&E | 4054 | 1903 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| K&E | 4041 | 1904 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 | |
| Faber | 367 | 1904-1905 | L | wd | 10.00 | 10 |