Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding Mary Scheier visible from one side

visible from one side

but really a terrific object

This large

Title page through page 8 missing

There is an old price and number written in pencil on the back

Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding Mary Scheier visible from one sideYou know I love measuring tools of all sorts, and this I think is really a cool, and also a really beautiful one, another of which I can't find out there anywhere. (Plus I just love the word fathom, in all its connotations.) Dated 1907, it was produced by Whyte Thomson Co, based on Sir William Thomson's patent Thomson, aka Baron Kelvin of Largs, being the very important Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (More on him below.) A fathoms