You have that slide rule in the back of the closet. Maybe it was from your college days. Maybe it was your Dad’s. Honestly. Do you know how to use it? Really? All the scales? That’s what we thought.

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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 ...

I still use a slide rule. I find it very efficient, much more so than using a computer often times. But I find people at work constantly asking what that "funny looking ruler" is. <BR>A quick google ...

THE principles upon which the construction of slide rules depend are described in this pamphlet, and numerous examples are given of the methods of use of such mechanical aids to calculation.

Most people have heard of or seen slide rules, with older generations likely having used these devices in school and at their jobs. As purely analog computers these ingenious devices use precomputed ...