A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for evaluating mathematical operations such as multiplication, division...
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A slide rule scale is a line with graduated markings inscribed along the length of a slide rule used for mathematical calculations. The earliest such...
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Look up slide rule in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A slide rule is a mechanical analog computer. Slide Rule may also refer to: Slide Rule (album)...
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Scientific calculator (redirect from Electronic slide rule calculator)
mathematical operations and functions. They have completely replaced slide rules as well as books of mathematical tables and are used in both educational...
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Keuffel and Esser (section Slide rules)
4181-3 slide rule, front scales K&E 4181-3 slide rule, rear scales High-precision extra-length engineering slide rule 4081-5 Sewer slide rule Fetal medical...
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E6B (redirect from Prayer wheel (slide rule))
The E6B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an instance of an analog calculating device still being used in the 21st...
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Look up slide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Slides. Slide or Slides may refer to: Slide, California, former...
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History of logarithms (section Slide rule)
four centuries. The idea of logarithms was also used to construct the slide rule, which became ubiquitous in science and engineering until the 1970s. A...
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Logarithm (redirect from Change of base rule)
_{b}x+\log _{b}y,} provided that b, x and y are all positive and b ≠ 1. The slide rule, also based on logarithms, allows quick calculations without tables, but...
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In measurement, the Coggeshall slide rule, also called a carpenter's slide rule, was a slide rule designed by Henry Coggeshall in 1677 to help in measuring...
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Fuller calculator (redirect from Fuller's cylindrical slide rule)
Fuller calculator, sometimes called Fuller's cylindrical slide rule, is a cylindrical slide rule with a helical main scale taking 50 turns around the cylinder...
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The International Slide Rule Museum (ISRM) is an American museum dedicated to the preservation and display of slide rules and other mathematical artefacts...
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The Bygrave slide rule is a slide rule named for its inventor, Captain Leonard Charles Bygrave of the RAF. It was used in celestial navigation, primarily...
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Slide Rule is the sixth solo album by dobro player Jerry Douglas, released in 1992 (see 1992 in music). It was his first release on the Sugar Hill label...
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Slide Rule (1940 – ? ) was a Thoroughbred race horse who was owned by William E. Boeing of Boeing. He sired by Metropolitan and Suburban Handicap winner...
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and becoming too large to fit within a small graph. The markings on slide rules are arranged in a log scale for multiplying or dividing numbers by adding...
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Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer is the partial autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1954. Slide Rule...
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Geniac (section Helical slide rule)
Oliver Garfield also sold the Otis King's Patent Calculator, a helical slide rule, under the Geniac brand. Initially he resold the ones manufactured by...
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functions. Slide rules with special scales are still used for quick performance of routine calculations, such as the E6B circular slide rule used for time...
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the modern slide rule. Around 1850, he introduced a new scale system that used a runner to perform calculations. This type of slide rule became known...
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Unspoken rule, an assumed rule of human behavior that is not voiced or written down Ruler, or "rule"; a distance measuring device Slide rule, a mechanical...
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to simple, often traditional or mechanical technology; for example, a slide rule is a low-tech calculating device. When high tech becomes old, it becomes...
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signals). Analog computers can have a very wide range of complexity. Slide rules and nomograms are the simplest, while naval gunfire control computers...
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William Oughtred (section Slide rule)
logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first to use two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct...
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compass (by Galileo), logarithms and Napier bones (by Napier), and the slide rule (by Edmund Gunter). The Renaissance saw the invention of the mechanical...
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Chronomat 01 and Navitimer 01. In the 1940s, Breitling added a circular slide rule to the bezel of its Chronomat models. This bezel became most associated...
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the demise of the slide rule among science and engineering students. Slide rule holsters rapidly gave way to "electronic slide rule" holsters, and colleges...
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guideposts to the user. Like a slide rule, a nomogram is a graphical analog computation device. Also like a slide rule, its accuracy is limited by the...
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and division with geometric translations, the principle underlying the slide rule. In analytic geometry, coordinate axes are number lines which associate...
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arithmetic calculations, preceding the slide-rule and the electronic calculator, and consisted of perforated pebbles sliding on iron bars. Philosophy portal...
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