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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Nevil Shute (category English aerospace engineers)
detailed account of the development of the two airships in his 1954 autobiographical work, Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. When he started,...
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R100 (category Airships of the United Kingdom)
the name of Nevil Shute; he was critical of the designers of the R38 and R101 in his autobiography Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer Masefield...
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album by Jerry Douglas Slide Rule (horse), thoroughbred racehorse Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer, a partial autobiography of the British novelist...
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A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for conducting mathematical operations such as multiplication, division...
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the autobiography of an engineer, Heinemann, pp. 42, 49, retrieved 30 October 2016 Shute, Nevil (1954), Slide rule : the autobiography of an engineer, Heinemann...
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an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a...
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R101 (category Airships of the United Kingdom)
gave his account of the design and construction of the two airships in his 1954 autobiography, Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. Shute Norway's...
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Henley-on-Thames: Foulis, 1973. ISBN 0854291458. Shute, Nevil (1954). Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. London: William Heinemann. ISBN 1-84232-291-5. {{cite...
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Retrieved 19 August 2019. Norway, Neville Shute (1954). Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. London: William Heinemann. Spooner, Stanley, ed. (29 March...
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inherited a considerable sum of money from an uncle she never knew. But the solicitor is now her trustee and she has the use of only the income until she...
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Shute". allreaders.com. Retrieved 18 December 2018. see Shute's autobiography Slide Rule pg 60 2nd Pan Edition 1969 "Nevil Shute Foundation—Title". www...
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Norway, Neville Shute (1954). Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. London, England: William Heinemann. p. 242. "History of No. 161 Squadron". RAF.MoD...
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Imperial Airship Scheme (category Airships of the United Kingdom)
name of Nevil Shute, Norway later became a successful novelist, and also wrote a memoir, Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer which gives an account...
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co-founder of Airspeed, Nevil Shute repeats this in his autobiography Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer and believed this to be the first use of hydraulically...
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Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. Shute, Nevil. Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. ISBN 1-84232-291-5...
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Airspeed Ltd. (category Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
Tiltman. In his autobiography, Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer, Norway gives an account of the founding of the company and of the processes that...
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Alan has studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and fought as an RAF pilot in World War II, but lost both feet when his plane crashed. He has...
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Howden (redirect from Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire)
ever seen in England, and incredibly foul-mouthed." – Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer, Nevil Shute, 1954. In 1932, Howden Minster's renovations...
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the work: "As an ingenious stringing-together of a varied set of subjects of present-day interest, it is more readable than a series of articles would...
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by telling his view of what must follow a Labour victory. Stevenson, realising the don lives in an ivory tower, gives the don an ultimatum: The story...
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actual British magazine, Model Engineer, and Shute himself admitted that the novel's protagonist is inspired by an author of that magazine, Edgar T. Westbury...
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nf.ca. Retrieved: 23 April 2015. Richard Thorne. Shute: the Engineer Who Became Prince of Storytellers (2017), p. 144 Pendo 1985, pp. 277–279. "Classic...
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Judge, an English exile and alcoholic, who gives the children an excellent education and keeps the finances of the station. Over the course of the explorations...
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The following is a list of notable autobiographies: Lists of books Published in English as Days on the Wing in 1934 and Flying In Flanders in 1971. This...
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the Engineer Who Became Prince of Storytellers (2017), p. 144 Dust-jacket, US Edition, 1947. Peter Caddick-Adams. Sand and Steel: A New History of D-Day...
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with the outside world only by radio. Hearing of his plight, Ronnie Clarke — an airline pilot and student of Pascoe decades earlier — offers to try and land...
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narrator – an Anglican priest in the Bush Brotherhood named Roger Hargreaves – who describes his ordinary circumstances in a large parish of the Queensland...
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personal elements which readers will find an interesting supplement to the author's autobiography, Slide Rule. Shute himself wrote about them that: I finished...
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experience in Canada, Donald Ross, who is hired by an Oxford don, Cyril Lockwood, to pilot an air survey mission of Brattalid in Greenland. Lockwood's interest...
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