William Oughtred was the first to suggest that calculations could ... and gave an almost complete specification for the slide rule which is used to-day by engineers.

Before there were apps for tablets and smartphones, before mathematics education software was easily installed on personal computers, before electronic calculators entered professional practice and ...

A regular slide rule takes advantage of the fact that you ... Now you count off 3 marks on the second ruler and that position on the first ruler will indicate the result. Here it lines up with ...

Primarily for multiplication and division, the slide rule has two stationary sets and one sliding set of numbers in the center. To multiply, numbers are added; to divide, numbers are subtracted.

Around here we mostly enjoy slide rules. We even have our own collections including some cylindrical and circular ones. But [Mathologer] discusses a recent Reddit post that explains a circular ...

This merger added a range of PIC slide rules to their range. the plastic slide rules where introduced in the 1960s and in 1967 the company became British Thornton. The slide rule was the evelution ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Open: Science Museum Group Musigraph 100', slide rule for music the... Musigraph 100', slide rule ...