A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for conducting mathematical operations such as multiplication, division...

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)...

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...

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...

The International Slide Rule Museum (ISRM) is an American museum dedicated to the preservation and display of slide rules and other mathematical artefacts...

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...

mathematical operations and functions. They have completely replaced slide rules as well as books of mathematical tables and are used in both educational...

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...

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...

are given with somewhat worse than the usual expected "slide-rule accuracy". Some slide rules, such as the K&E Deci-Lon in the photo, calibrate to be...

four centuries. The idea of logarithms was also used to construct the slide rule (invented around 1620–1630), which was ubiquitous in science and engineering...

The E6-B 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...

_{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...

Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer is the partial autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1954. Slide Rule...

compass (by Galileo), logarithms and Napier bones (by Napier), and the slide rule (by Edmund Gunter). The Renaissance saw the invention of the mechanical...

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...

curves are often depicted on a logarithmic scale graph. The markings on slide rules are arranged in a log scale for multiplying or dividing numbers by adding...

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...

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...

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...

challenged France Rode to create a "shirt-pocket sized HP-9100". At the time, slide rules were the only practical portable devices for performing trigonometric...

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...

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...

A flight computer is a form of slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread use in the 21st century. Sometimes it is...

(1949 or 1950 — September 4, 2023) was a renowned American collector of slide rules. He was born in Los Angeles, and attended University of California, Los...

signals). Analog computers can have a very wide range of complexity. Slide rules and nomograms are the simplest, while naval gunfire control computers...

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...

versions have a built-in slide rule on the back. Sometime between 1666 and 1675, French polymath Claude Perrault invented the first slide calculator, called...

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...

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...