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2. Combination square - Wikipedia

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   Though some earlier 19th century tools were called combination squares, the modern combination square was invented in the late 1870s by American inventor Laroy S. Starrett, and patented in 1879. [note 1] [8] In 1880 he founded the L. S. Starrett Company in Athol, Massachusetts, United States. The tool was originally designed for machinists, but ...

3. L. S. Starrett Company - Wikipedia

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   The L. S. Starrett Company is an American manufacturer of tools and instruments used by machinists, tool and die makers, and the construction industry. The company was founded by businessman and inventor Laroy Sunderland Starrett in 1880. The company patented such items as the sliding combination square, bench vises, and a

4. Scriber - Wikipedia

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   A scriber is a hand tool used in metal work to mark lines on workpieces, prior to machining. The process of using a scriber is called scribing and is just part of the process of marking out . It is used instead of pencils or ink lines, because the latter are hard to see, easily erased, and imprecise due to their wide mark; scribe lines are thin ...

5. Scribing (cartography) - Wikipedia

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   The scribe sheet is made of a stable plastic base material and coated with a material which is designed for easy removal using a scribing tool to produce a cleanly cut line. Various colours are used, and orange is said to produce the least eye-strain for the cartographer. One scribe sheet is produced for each map colour.

6. List of toolkits - Wikipedia

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   A toolkit is an assembly of tools; set of basic building units for user interfaces. The word toolkit may refer to: Abstract Window Toolkit; Accessibility Toolkit; Adventure Game Toolkit; B-Toolkit; Cheminformatics toolkits; Dojo Toolkit; Fox toolkit; GTK, the GIMP Toolkit; Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Harmony (toolkit), an incomplete set of ...

7. Square (tool) - Wikipedia

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   [5] [6] Centre squares are also manufactured to be used as a head for a combination square. [7] Combination square, or sliding square A combination square features a ruler (the blade) which can be slid and adjusted within a head (the stock). The head usually has one face at 90° to the ruler, and another face at 45° to the ruler.