Slide Rules Do (Most) of the Math By the same token, using a slide rule is very helpful but–paradoxically–you have to know a little math to be able to use it.

Object Details maker Hartung, Maurice L. Description Maurice Hartung of the University of Chicago wrote this sixteen-page booklet to explain the use of natural log and logarithmic scales placed on ...

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August 30, 2004 Astronauts, Purdue alumni add their contributions to new slide-rule exhibit WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Jerry Ross, along with about 200 other Purdue ...

Decades have passed since the pocket calculator relegated the trusty slide rule to near obscurity. Now, an exhibit celebrates the lengthy history of the device, featuring the slide rules of ...

Before the smartphone, the laptop and the pocket calculator, there was a powerful mechanical computer. Our new series, Tools of the Trade, begins with a look at the slide rule.

Not only that, but he said that he would frequently use his watch to perform some of the calculations slide rule bezels were designed for when he was a Navy pilot.

Later, in junior high school at Mount Greylock, I learned from a classmate (who went on to become a high school math teacher) how to use the slide rule to multiply. I never mastered division, with or ...

He is also the president of the Oughtred Society — a group of 400 slide rule collectors and enthusiasts seeking to preserve the device's history (and where you can find out all sorts of information ...