FOR CURATOR, SLIDE RULES ARE CUTTING EDGE

The Boston Globe | May 10, 2005| | Copyright

A simple relic of Nerd-dom to many, the slide rule is "one of the most technologically significant" objects of the 20th-century that has never been studied, according to Deborah Douglas, science and technology curator of the MIT Museum. And with nearly 1,000 slide rules in her collection ranging from a 6-foot-tall "teaching" slide rule to a hand-held aviation version Douglas ought to know.

In January, her museum announced its acquisition of the Keuffel and Esser Co. slide rule collection one of the largest corporate collections in the United States and since then engineering enthusiasts ...

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