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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.
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Examples of how the slide rule is a useful tool for teaching the mathematical concept of transformations. Examples and illustrations.
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Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.
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Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information on various types of slide rules.
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A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case.
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Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales.
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Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.
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Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.
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Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.
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Instructions in Slide Rule Use
Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format.
www.sliderules.clara.net
How To Make a Slide Rule (or Log-log or Semilog Graph Paper)
Fairly simple instructions.
calclab.math.tamu.edu
Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule
Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.
solar.physics.montana.edu
Eric's Introduction to the Slide Rule
Slide rule resources and links.
www.sliderule.ca
Internet port of history's most heavily used advanced calculation aid.
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