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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Pickett N4-ES Vector-Type Log Log Duplex Slide Rule

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This aluminum ten-inch linear duplex ...