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The slide rule today: respect for the past. (history of the slide rule) (Input-Output) (Column)
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; For 350 years the slide rule was an indispensible logarithmic calculating...Scotland laid the foundation for the slide rule. In 1620, Edmund Gunter marked a 24...rules. As with other collectibles, a slide rule's value today depends largely on its...
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Slide rules of the stanley rule & level company and other American makers
Magazine article from: The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc.; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...source of slide rules. The "modern" slide rule era in America, which lasted until...architect or early-day engineer wanted a slide rule in the mid-1800s, his choice was...development in 1808 of the engineers' slide rule by Joshua Routledge (1773-1829) of...
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Working slide rule is world's largest at 352 feet long.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/6/2001; ; 596 words
; ...most people even `thought' about a slide rule, but Fort Worth became home to the...to them that theirs be a working slide rule. They said they weren't sure if the...business cards that identify him as The Slide Rule Guy. He even has a Web site: www...
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Slides rule: before the calculator, before the computer, a simple tool that worked remains far from forgotten.(Purdue University)
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the moon, has promised to send his slide rule, as well. The exhibit is more than...the computer may have usurped the slide rule's place in the engineer's toolbox...There was a point in time when the slide rule was king, he said. During a period...
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THE PASSING OF THE VENERABLE SLIDE RULE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/18/1993; ; 700+ words
; My father's slide rule. I found it at the back of a bureau drawer...Keuffel & Esser log-log-duplex-decitrig slide rule from the 1940s, with white plastic scales...the calculations he performed on his slide rule. It was enough for a tidy, self- contained...
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SLIDE RULE'S GLORY DAYS RECALLED
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 6/13/2002; ; 439 words
; ...batteries." More accurately, "that" is a slide rule, or Slipstick, and Beafore is one...radios and old cars," he said. The slide rule, he said, reminds him of days "when you used a slide rule, you had to know the basic rules...
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A GOODIE BUT AN OLDIE ; XENIA MAN REMEMBERS SLIDE RULE'S GLORY DAYS
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 5/23/2002; ; 474 words
; ...batteries." More accurately, "that" is a slide rule, or Slipstick, and Beafore is one...like the PT Cruiser," he said. The slide rule, he said, reminds him of days "when you used a slide rule, you had to know the basic rules...
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SLIDES RULE
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the moon, has promised to send his slide rule, as well. The exhibit is more than...the computer may have usurped the slide rule's place in the engineer's toolbox...There was a point in time when the slide rule was king," he said. "During a period...
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Slide rules rule!(Stress Relief)
Magazine article from: Advanced Materials & Processes; 10/1/2004; 367 words
; ...There was a point in time when the slide rule was king, says Dr. James Alleman...any magnitude would have required a slide rule. Then, in the early 1970s Hewlett...the HP-35, signaling an end to the slide rule's dominance in scientific computing...
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FOR CURATOR, SLIDE RULES ARE CUTTING EDGE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/10/2005; ; 597 words
; ...simple relic of Nerd-dom to many, the slide rule is "one of the most technologically...ranging from a 6-foot-tall "teaching" slide rule to a hand-held aviation version Douglas...acquisition of the Keuffel and Esser Co. slide rule collection one of the largest corporate...
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