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Pamphlet, How to Use Dual Base Log Log Slide Rules

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Pickett, Inc., was a slide rule ...
Hackaday

Unwinding An Unusual Slide Rule

If the Otis King slide rule in [Chris Staecker’s] latest video looks a bit familiar, you might be getting up there in age, or you might remember seeing us talk about one in our collection. Actually, ...
Berkshire Eagle

When slide rules ruled; sweat the small print

WILLIAMSTOWN — They weren’t exactly a “fad” (you couldn’t wear one, a barber or hairdresser couldn’t shave or sculpt one), but slide rules nevertheless became what might be called academically ...
Hackaday

Retrotechtacular: Learning The Slide Rule The New Old Fashioned Way

Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete ...
The New York Times

Walter Shawlee, the Sovereign of Slide Rules, Is Dead at 73

Used by engineers for centuries, they were displaced by pocket calculators and all but forgotten until Mr. Shawlee created a subculture of obsessives and cornered the market. By Alex Traub For about ...
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Pamphlet, How to Use Log Log Slide Rules

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Maurice Hartung of the University of ...