How to use a slide rule. or how to build one, or both.
This page was last updated on December 1st, 2008
This page was last updated on December 1st, 2008
Slide Rules (from Education)
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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.
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.
How a Slide Rule Works
Short lesson.
How To Make a Slide Rule (or Log-log or Semilog Graph Paper)
Fairly simple instructions.
Basic Slide Rule Instructions
Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.
Slide Rule Scales
Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.
How To Perform Slide Rule Operations
Illustrated tutorial.
The Scales of the Slide Rule
Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales.
Instructions in Slide Rule Use
Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format.
The Coggeshall Slide Rule
History of this unusual 1600s slide rule.
About Slide Rules
Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.
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.
Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.
Introduction to Logarithmic Algebra
How to use a slide rule and do the underlying math.
Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule
Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.
Napier's Bones
A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case.
Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so.
Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information on various types of slide rules.
Short lesson.
Fairly simple instructions.
Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.
Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.
Illustrated tutorial.
Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales.
Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format.
History of this unusual 1600s slide rule.
Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.
Examples of how the slide rule is a useful tool for teaching the mathematical concept of transformations. Examples and illustrations.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.
How to use a slide rule and do the underlying math.
Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.
A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case.
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