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Shelfmark: 20073-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 30; W.: 2; L.: 8; Mass: 10 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: artifact
Abstract: Folding ivory rule, brass hinged, in two section with locking point, marked both sides in 6 units divided into eights. The 6 units correspond to 15,2 cm. and it therefore seems to be a 6-inch rule
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1760
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)