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- About Slide Rules - Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.
ds.dial.pipex.com/nib/slides.htm
- Basic Slide Rule Instructions - Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.
www.hpmuseum.org/srinst.htm
- Calculating Machines - General history and description of the ordinary slide rule, the Otis King and Curta calculators.
www.artlum.com/museum/museum.html
- Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent - Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.
www.americanartifacts.com/smma/thachpat.htm
- History of the Slide Rule - Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information on various types of slide rules.
www.hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm
- How a Slide Rule Works - Short lesson.
www.eminent.demon.co.uk/sliderul.htm
- How To Perform Slide Rule Operations - Illustrated tutorial.
www.howe.k12.ok.us/~jimaskew/askew/rules.htm
- How to Use a Slide Rule as a Bicycle Gear Chart - Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so.
www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~arpepper/Cycling/slide_rule.html
- Instructions in Slide Rule Use - Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format.
www.sliderules.clara.net/a-to-z/instructions.htm
- Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule - Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.
icarus.physics.montana.edu/math/csr.html
- Napier's Bones - A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case.
www.mwbrooks.com/bones.html
- Slide Rule as a Teaching Tool - Examples of how the slide rule is a useful tool for teaching the mathematical concept of transformations. Examples and illustrations.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5136/slide.html
- Slide Rule Scales - Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.
www.sphere.bc.ca/test/scales.html
- The Coggeshall Slide Rule - History of this unusual 1600s slide rule.
www.users.nyc.pipeline.com/~kiowa/slide.htm
- The Scales of the Slide Rule - Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales.
www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/3238/mannheim.html
- The Slide Rule Home Page - Shows examples of different models, briefly explains the scales and what they are used for, and has related resource links.
photobooks.com/~slipstick/slipstik.html
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