Math: Education: Slide Rules

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About Slide Rules http://ds.dial.pipex.com/nib/slides.htm Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide. Basic Slide Rule Instructions http://www.hpmuseum.org/srinst.htm Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations. Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/thachpat.htm Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams. History of the Slide Rule http://www.hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm 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 http://www.eminent.demon.co.uk/sliderul.htm Short lesson. How To Make a Slide Rule (or Log-log or Semilog Graph Paper) http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/~fulling/m152/sliderul.html Fairly simple instructions. How To Perform Slide Rule Operations http://www.howe.k12.ok.us/~jimaskew/askew/rules.htm Illustrated tutorial. How to Use a Slide Rule as a Bicycle Gear Chart http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~arpepper/Cycling/slide_rule.html Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so. Instructions in Slide Rule Use http://www.sliderules.clara.net/a-to-z/instructions.htm Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format. Introduction to Logarithmic Algebra http://tutor.lscf.ucsb.edu/mcdb108a/tw-lig/logoverview.htm How to use a slide rule and do the underlying math. Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule http://solar.physics.montana.edu/kankel/math/csr.html Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites. Napier's Bones http://www.mwbrooks.com/bones.html A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case. Slide Rule as a Teaching Tool http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5136/slide.html Examples of how the slide rule is a useful tool for teaching the mathematical concept of transformations. Examples and illustrations. Slide Rule Scales http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/scales.html Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules. The Coggeshall Slide Rule http://www.users.nyc.pipeline.com/~kiowa/slide.htm History of this unusual 1600s slide rule. The Scales of the Slide Rule http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/3238/mannheim.html Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales.

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