You have to really like slide rules to build your own, including the necessary artwork. Apparently [Dylan Thinnes] is a big fan, based on this project he began working on a few months back.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...