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| Title | A Treatise on a Box of Instruments and the Slide-rule: For the Use of Gaugers, Engineers, Seamen, and Students Practical series |
| Author | Thomas Kentish |
| Publisher | H.C. Baird, 1852 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 252 pages |
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