Nomograms and computing charts
- Galileo's sector (compasso geometrico) Galileo Galilei · 1597
- Napier's bones John Napier · 1617
- Gunter's line of numbers Edmund Gunter · 1620
- Slide rule William Oughtred · 1622
- Circular slide rule Richard Delamain · 1630
- Cartesian coordinate system Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat · 1637
- Printed coordinate (squared) paper Buxton (patent) · 1794
- Graphic multiplication tables of Pouchet Louis-Ezéchiel Pouchet · 1795
- Descriptive geometry (Monge projections) Gaspard Monge · 1799
- Conversion scale (double scale) Anonymous instrument makers · 1800s
- Graphical differentiation (tangent construction) Various; codified by Carl Runge · 1800s-1920s
- Polar coordinate paper Various · 1800s
- Carlyle circle Thomas Carlyle (attrib.); John Leslie · 1817
- Isometric projection (Farish) William Farish · 1822
- Grid (network) nomogram Léon Lalanne · 1843-1846
- Isopleth (contour computing) chart Léon Lalanne; later widespread · 1843-1900
- Lalanne abacus / geometric anamorphosis Léon Lalanne · 1843-1846
- Log-log (double logarithmic) paper Léon Lalanne (anamorphosis); commercial rulings from c.1900 · 1846-1900
- Planimeter Jacob Amsler · 1854
- Semi-logarithmic (ratio) chart William Stanley Jevons; codified by Irving Fisher · 1863
- Lill's method Eduard Lill · 1867
- Harmonic analyser William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) · 1876
- Cylindrical (helical) slide rule George Fuller · 1878
- Integraph Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz · 1878
- Massau graphical integration Junius Massau · 1878-1884
- Thacher's calculating instrument Edwin Thacher · 1881
- Alignment nomogram (alignment chart) Maurice d'Ocagne · 1884-1899
- Concurrent-scale nomogram Maurice d'Ocagne · 1884-1899
- Curved-scale nomogram Maurice d'Ocagne · 1884-1899
- N chart (Z chart nomogram) Maurice d'Ocagne · 1884
- Parallel-scale nomogram (three parallel scales) Maurice d'Ocagne · 1884
- Abaque hexagonal à échelles multiples Charles Lallemand (reported and systematised by Maurice d'Ocagne) · 1885
- Hexagonal chart (abaque hexagonal) Charles Lallemand · 1885
- Nomogramme à index en équerre Junius Massau (square index for the complete cubic, simplified by Maurice d'Ocagne); related square-index charts by R. Soreau and the Siegler profilomètre · c.1885
- Transparency-overlay nomogram Charles Lallemand; Maurice d'Ocagne · 1885-1920
- Droites à doubles enveloppes Père Poulain (principle, letter to d'Ocagne of 16 October 1891); B. Paladini (contact-trajectory example on an equation of Pesci, Rivista marittima, March 1898); systematised by Maurice d'Ocagne · 1891-98
- Genaille-Lucas rulers Henri Genaille and Édouard Lucas · 1891
- Nomogrammes à cercles concourants Maurice d'Ocagne (general theory, paper of 1896); an earlier labelled-circle chart by Captain Ricour (1873) · 1896
- Compound nomogram with pivot line Maurice d'Ocagne; Joseph Lipka · 1899-1930
- Circular nomogram Maurice d'Ocagne (type); various · 1900-1930
- Isometric graph paper Various, after Farish · 1900s
- Reciprocal (1/x) graph paper Various · 1900s
- Soreau classification of nomogram genera Rodolphe Soreau · 1901