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Robert Herndon, Aircraft Engineer featured in 1957 Life Magazine
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Dr. Katherine Blodgett, GE scientist who invented invisible anti-glare glass (1948 Life)
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Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914-1997) Astrophysicist, Princeton.
Driving force behind the Hubbel Space telescope. (1948 Life photo)
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Virginia Sink (c1975), Engineer at Chrysler, designed the first auto smog devices.
1936 Univ. of Colorado, chemical engineering.(SME)
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USMA Instructor Giving a Cadet an Electric Motor Demonstration (1941 Life)
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USMA Cadets (at West Point) Marching With Slide Rules (1941 Life)
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USMA Cadets Analyze a Bridge Model (1941_Life)
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USMA Cadets at a Lecture on Radio Waves (1941 Life)
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Professor Joseph Gabrys lecturing to engineering students (1949)
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Women Engineers at Illinois Bell telephone (c1955)
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Marly Van Leer Peck, The Lady Engineer (1957_Life)
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James F. Hunt of the 1951 Brooklyn Grand Jury
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Dr. Harvey White, 1958 NBC TV show Continental Classroom
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Dr. Harvey White, 1958 NBC TV show Continental Classroom
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Catherine Eiden (1914-1990) at Bell Telephone Company, later a professor at
University of Texas. Society of Women Engineers (SME) President 1960-1969.
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Astounding Science Fiction May1951 Galactic Gadgeteers by Harry Stine
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Emilio Gino Segre (Emilio Segre Visual Archives)
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Dr. Robert Goddard (1882-1954) American Rocketry Pioneer
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Otto Struve (Emilio Segre Visual Archives)
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Betty Lou Bailey (1929-2007), Mechanical engineer, worked for 44 years at General
Electric (picture c1950-1959) in hydropower applications. River preservationalist.
SWE Fellow and Pioneer.
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Celestron Pacific Ad (June 1962)
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Jules Gueron (Emilio Segre Visual Archives)
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Pudue 1942 Aeronautic Structures Class
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Woman Engineer using an Aristo Drum Cylindrical Slide Rule
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Lydia J. Pickup at Boeing Co., Seattle (1968), Past Society of Women Engineers (SWE) President
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Joseph Griffith Reed (1867-1969) Australian Physicist and Radio Engineer.
Designed the Reed Electronic engineer's slide rule
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Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946), British Physicist and Mathematician,
First to propose that matter is continuously created throughout the universe.
(courtesy of Peter Hopp)
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Ir. S.G.J.H. van Schaik (1943) Managing Director of AKU,
(Algemene Kunstzijde Unie), later AKZU, in Holland. Painted by
the Dutch artist Carel Willink (1900-1983). (courtesy of Peter Hopp)
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Portrait of an unknown gentleman painted by the well-known and prolific
painter William Derby, (1786-1847).
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Detroit’s Industry by Diego Rivera, Detroit Institute of Arts,
2007, presumed to be of Henry Ford. (courtesy of Bryan Purcell and peter Hopp)
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Univ of Missouri Society Of Women Engineers (1972)
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Univ of Missouri Society Of Women Engineers Float (1980)
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U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Cadet with K&E Decilon SR from 1973 Yearbook.
Courtesy of Jeff Ilseman, class of 1975.
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Cadet Douglas Jenkins, US Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Class of 1964 (photo by Fred Malmstrom, NMI Civ USAFA/CWCH)
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Constance Badington Smith, RAF (1944) First to identify the V1 pulse-jet flying bomb
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Slide rule in use (1950) Aeronatical Systems Center
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Pudue 1942 Aeronautic Structures Class
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William Hartree, father of Douglas Hartree (Late 1930s)
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Japanese Students In a National Slide Rule Contest.
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WWII Bombadier captain plotting adjustments for wind drift in nose of B-17 bomber (1942)
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Thomas Jefferson HS, Port Arthur, TX, Slide Rule Club (1960)
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W. Kuybysheva, Russian Chemical Engineer 1936 (Kuibyshev Industrial Institute)
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St Petersburg State Polytechnical Univ - Math Instruments Display
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Prof.N.S. Stefutin, Secretary M.V. Ivanov, Assoc V.K. Shahno, St Petersburg State Polytechnical Univ
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German scientist (1946)
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Los Alamos AntiProton Equipment (1955) From left, Emilio Segrè, Clyde Wiegand, Edward Lofgren,
Owen Chamberlain,
and Thomas Ypsilantis, members of the team that discovered the antiproton
...more at lbl.gov
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St Leonards_School, Warlingham, Surrey (1967) by Bob Hope Daily Herald (Science & Society)
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UTO Factory Article (Danish) contributed by IJ Schuitema
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UTO Factory Article (Danish) contributed by IJ Schuitema
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Air Force crews plotting course for operation Big Lift (1963)
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Crick And Watson (1953) by Antony Barrington Brown
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Crick And Watson (1953) by Antony Barrington Brown
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Crick And Watson (1953) by Antony Barrington Brown
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Slide Rule Club (1963), Pasmona High School, Vancouver, B.C. 1963 United States Champions
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WWII Submarine Coning Tower (1943).
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Sir Franck WHITTLE (1907-1996) British Engineer
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Franck Whittle with Slide Rule Painting
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Sir Franck Whittle Turbine Portrait
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MIT students taking calculus exam (1956)
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MIT students studying in dorm room (1956)
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Met Life Ad for Engineers, l2-4-66
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USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB (c1950)
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USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB (c1950)
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USAF Test Pilot School Patch
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British RAF liaison officers at US 8th Air Force Bomber Command (1942)
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Carrollton HS, TX, Slide Rule Clubs (1958) Pg082
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Carrollton HS, TX, Slide Rule Clubs (1959) Pg079
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Carrollton HS, TX, Slide Rule and Alpha-Omega Clubs (1959) Pg08
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Carrollton HS, TX, Slide Rule Clubs (1960) Pg131
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Clay Castleberry (1947) at Oregon State College (now OSU), Corvallis, OR.
Clay is now retired and a SR collector, Fellow of the Oughtred Society and contributor
to the ISRM.
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Woodall Inductries Inc - Advertisment
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"To a Slide-rule Widow", Boeing Recruiting Ad
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Japanese worker making Hemmi SR's (linked to pre-1940 manufacturing process)
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Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964) Columbia Pictures. He is calculating
the time people must spend underground, using the half life of something
called "Cobalt Thorium G" He comes up with 100 years.
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1965 movie Flight Of The Phoenix starring Jimmy Stewart.
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Iowa State Slide Rule Class (1934)
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Englewood High School class K&E 1933 Catalog)
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Prospector Yearbook (1970), Colorado School Of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
(contributed by Brian Mack)
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Peter F. Lotus Corp ad (Fortune Magazine April 1952)
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Two color radar (1948).
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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Display, Slide_Rules
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NASA Display, Astronaut Neil Armstrong's Slide Rule (Apollo 11)
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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1906-1965) Chief Designer Of Soviet Spacecraft
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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Display, Sergei P. Korolev (Nestler 23R Slide rule)
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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Display, Wernher Von Braun (Nestler 23R Slide rule)
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Jarman Shoe ad
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IBM Slide Rule ad (1952)
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Slide Rule Cufflinks and Tie Clasp Ad (Popular Mechanics)
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Gilbert Newton Lewis (1902) MIT Museum
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William Hultz Walker (1869-1934) MIT Museum (Chemical Engineering)
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Slide Rule Cipher (jproc.ca)
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Talus Furniture Slide Rule Clock Made with Legos
See it work
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Slide Rule watch (1950) (top picture)
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Vitro Corporation ad (Fortune Magazine)
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Breitling Chronomat Ad (1948)
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Loyd Photo as student (1959) Slide Rule and Desk
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Calculating by slide rule (EPA 1973) Archive Research Catalog
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CIE Slide Rule Ad
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Watch In Space! - Breitling Navitimer Chronomat Ad
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Randolph Community College, Instructor Ronald Biddle, Electrical Maintenance Students (1964)
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Univ of Cincinnati Computer Science
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Danforth W. Hagler (VP) Georgia Iron Works, designer of the Hydraulic Slide Rule by Pickett (now at ISRM)
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IBM ad in Foundry Magazine (Nov 1967) showing Georgia Iron Works slide rule in background.
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Math Department Display of instruments issued to cadets at the US Air Force Academy in
Colorado Springs (2009) photo by Fred Malmstrom, NMI Civ USAFA/CWCH
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Math Instruments Case Smithsonian
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Faber Castell Stamps
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Slide Rule Postage Stamps Romania (1957)(reglasdecalculo.com)
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NCF Class Using Slide Rules (1965)
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Joe Pasquale, shown as Student in 1976 at WHS, now a professor at UCSD.
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Colin Barnes of UKSRC in a 1966 article. (England)
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MIT Tech Nov 17, 1933 - Walker Slide-Rule Thief Apprehended
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MIT Tech Oct 3, 1904 - Get a Slide Rule (ad on left)
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McKee Engineering Ad
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K&E Building, est1867, 127 Fulton St. Manhattan, NY (1991)
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SIC Chemical Engineering ad (Jan 1966)
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Illinois Institute Of Technology Electrical Engineering Class (1900-1909)
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Illinois Institute Of Technology Math Auditorium (1900-1909)
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Illinois Institute of Technology Engineering Class (1941)
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Dietzgen Drafting Table with Slide Rule
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Frederick Emmons Termnan (1900-1982) painted by JimPallas
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Slide Rule Club (1963) Rockdale, TX
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College Student c1940-1950
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Allegheny Power Systems Ad
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DIWA Raknesticka Electro Ad (contributed by IJ Shuitema)
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Ir. IJzebrand Schuitema (one of the world's foremost authorities)
Slide Rule Display in the Netherlands - Dutch KRING
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Texas A-M Sliderule Contest Trophy (1957)
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Slide Rule shown in 1972 Enerjet Rocketry Catalog
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Maiko (Japan), holding an old DIWA Model 1
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Calumet And Hecla Ad
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Popular Mechanics Article showing motor driven slide rule. (This is thought to be a hoax).
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Orbitometer Satellite Slide Rule to track Sputnik in 1957. Made by St. Joseph High School Radio Club
Cleveland, Ohio. Dennis Tommasone and Dennis Skala discuss the Orbitometer with Moderator Mike Stimac. Photo by Fred Imm.
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Apollo 13 Mission Control (NASA)
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Slide Rule Scenes From the Movie Apollo 13 - Watch for slide rules
being used in mission control
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Apollo 13 Ground Team Works out solution to return Astronauts
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Teacher Pointing to Pickett Demo rule (ISRG)
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John Martin Wolfskill (1908-1981) Slide Rule
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John Wesley Cell SlideRule (1960) NCSU
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J.R. Hoff at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama (1982) in front of an AN/TMQ-5 Radiosonde Recorder.
The slide rule was used for computing dew point temperatures in the upper atmosphere. The large circular slide rule on
top the Control Recorder (to his right) was used in computing wind data values.
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Lawrence (Larry) Luckham at Bell Labs (1960's)
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"Slide Rule Charlie" Charles Lepchinsky GWU c1950
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352 ft Slide Rule enters Guiness Book, 300 lbs, made by Skip Solberg And Jay Francis
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Charles Lester Reynolds, NASA Seminar July, 2006
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Bald mad scientist with slide rule gauges and gizmos
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Big Brain by Harry122
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Joe Miner, Official Mascot of University of Missouri-Rolla
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Slide Rules and small Drawing Board (1943) Getty Images
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Rlide Rule Pedestrian, photo by Eric Wong, Univ Of Utah
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Science Cartoon by T. McCracken
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MIT Slide Rule Class (1997)
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Wolfgang Leistritz Engineer In Leipzig, Germany (1960)
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Teaching_Mathematics c1957
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Teaching_Mathematics c1957
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Hamburger Professional School, Germany (1961)
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Brewer's Gauging Rule
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Slide Rule Watch on Apollo Astronaut on the Moon (left arm) NASA
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Raccoon with Slide Rule by Daniel
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VanMark Figurine - Masters 0f Learning - Math Teacher with Slide Rule and Calculator
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Curso de Regla de Calculo (Class on Slide Rules) ad (1967)(reglasdecalculo.com)
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IRS tax form with Slide Rule tag (Spoof) (ISRG)
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Container Corp Slide Rule AD (Showing Pickett 600-ES)
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Christmas Card from Larry Stewart (International Slide Rule Group)
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"Lucky" LarryStewart (International Slide Rule Group)
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Make a Slide Rule
Far Out Math
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W. Stanley Slide Rule Practice Booklet (1938)
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Goodyear Electronic Differential Analyzer advertisement
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Japanese Slide Rule Collector
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Caution Sign (translation unknown)
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Brookins Pluggers Cartoon
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Partridge SlideRule (1671) Paris Museum Of Arts And Measure
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MIT Tech Talk - Deborah Douglas shows slide rules in MIT Museum
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From a Dennert and Pape catalog. D&P became Aristo. (Germany)
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1936 class 6C of the Real gymnasium. Contributor Paul Wirz is a student in this class (Switzerland).
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See 1944 clip Students using SR's (ref archive films)
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Ruth Roman handles Van Johnson's slide rule in the movie "Invitation" (1951)
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Dana Andrews in the movie "I Want You" (1950)
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Nestler 1967 Catalog Cover (Contributed By Jürgen Nestler)
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Jürgen Nestler (Great Grandson of Albert Nestler) in German Museum. Jürgen
is an Oughtred Society member.
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Nestler Factory (1956) Firmentraktca (founded 1878)
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Jürgen Nestler (Great Grandson of Albert Nestler)
in March 2, 2007 Newspaper feature article.
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Nestler 1966 School Catalog Cover(Contributed By Jürgen Nestler)
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Walnut Hills HS Cincinnati,OH John_Betz presents his work (1957)
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Walnut Hills HS Cincinnati,OH - Student Gretchen Hovemeyer presents before Calculus Class (1957)
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Walnut Hills HS Cincinnati,OH - Student Gretchen Hovemeyer presents before Calculus Class (1957)
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Walnut Hills HS Cincinnati, OH. Good View of K&E Model 100 Demonstration Rule
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Richard Marianis Calculus Essay Class (c1957)
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Richard Marianis Calculus Essay Class (c1957)
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Richard Marianis Calculus Essay Class (c1957)
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Instructor shows use of E6-B for Navigation Training at Kelley Field, TX (1942)
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Student Navigator Plotting a Course, Kelley Field, TX (1942)
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Army and Navy men attending a Radio Engineering class at Capitol Radio Institute (1941)
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Materials given to Student Navigators, Kelley Field, TX (1942). Note the E6-B and a K&E 4070 slide rule.
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Student Navigator Looking for landmarks in flight, Kelley Field, TX (1942)
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Student Navigator verifying flight path, Kelley Field, TX (1942)
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Student Navigator communicating flight data to pilot, Kelley Field, TX (1942)
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Navigator and Radio Operator Plotting a Course.
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2001 LA Times article featuring pictures of Bob Otnes collection with interviews from
collectors Tom Wyman, Eric Mancotte, Craig Watkins, Michael O'Leary, and Berrie Ripin.
Scan by Eric Mancotte
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Bloom County cartoons drawn by Berkeley Breathed (1988) about the demise of slide rules.
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Shell Oil Campaign Promoting Animals In Research (1945)
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1998 Mercury Telecomm Ad
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Hallicrafters Ad, American Radio Amateur Handbook (1952)
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Aristo catalog (1970) Lufthansa
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Aristo catalog (1970) Lufthansa
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Aristo catalog (1965) "Getting the answer faster"
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Aristo catalog (1965) "Getting the answer faster"
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Aristo catalog (1965)
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From BBC's production of The Last Days Of Steam
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From BBC's documentary of Frank Loyd Wright
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Cipher Slide Rule, Life Mag
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Communications Post Fort Bragg, By Bernard Hoffman, Life
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Boeing 707 Flight Engineer
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Fortune Magazine, Northrup Aircraft (9-1955)
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Fortune Magazine, United Engineers, Artist:Stanley Meltzoff
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Fortune Magazine, United Engineers, Artist:Stanley Meltzoff
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Glen Elgin Distillery (c1892)
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Indicator In Use from The Steam Engine by John Perry (1902) McMillan & Co
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K&E Adv in Oct 1953 Penn State Engineer
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UK Ministry Of Defence Ad
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Norwich Union, Fullers in use (can you find them all?)
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AEG_Office_Berlin_1913
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Physics World (Mar 2007)
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Pooleys Demonstration Flight Computer (still available for £375/$560)
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Ross Ensign, British Journal Photographic Almanac (1954)
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Saturday Evening Post AE Adv
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Saturday Evening Post, Torrington Bearings
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Star Trek Dr. Spock uses E6B (two frames)
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Star Trek Dr. Spock uses E6B
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Tennessee Tech (c1950) Yearbook
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NY Times (2-4-99) Are You Too Busy Earning Money To Save Some?
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Wilcox Ad 1953 p190 Worksop Calculations Tables And Formulae
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British Thorton cat 1970
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Electronic Engineeering 1958 G&E Bradley Ad
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GEC Publicity Cathode Ray Tube
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Savings And Land Bank Ad, Aristo 940 Concrete Slide Rule Shown
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Pfaff Ad 1983
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A.W. Faber-Castell Ad Your Desk Speaks About You
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A.W. Faber-Castell Ad, TR1 Electronic Calculator-SR Two Calculators In One Hand
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Faber-Castell, 1997 Article: A Slide Rule Was An Everyday Tool
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Faber-Castell 1997 graphic
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Breitling Aviation Pilot's Watch
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Breitling Pilot Watch Ad 2006
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Joshua Routledge (1775-1829) Rotary Steam Engine, Bolton Library 1805
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Joshua Routledge (1775-1829) Rotary Steam Engine, Bolton Library 1805
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Sir Stanley Hooker (1907-1984) On Right with John Heniott and Frank Whittle (c1942 )
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Rex K. Pierson - Chief Designer at Vickers Aviation, Weybridge c1930
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Sir Barnes Wallis (1887-1979)
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Sir Barnes Wallis (1887-1979)
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Gordon H. Cook c1960 Chief Lens Designer, Cooke Optics Ltd, Leicester
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George Bousfield (1856-1902) c1887_Vade Mecum Slide Rule
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Frederic (1900-1958) and Irene (1897-1956) Joliot-Curie, daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie
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Dmitri Maksutov (1896-1964) Pulkovo Observatory Russia c1950
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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932)1st Two way Transatlantic communication
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Design Team SS Uganda (c1952) James Wilson, Walter Macleay, and John Hamilton
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Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) Science Fiction Author with Slide Rule
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Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) Manhattan Project
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Enrico Fermi Postcard 2001
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Frederick David Edwards CBE (1889-1966) Father Of High Vacuum
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Austin Packard Farrar (1913-2004) Inventor Of The Pulpit On Modern Yachts
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Jules Dujardin (1857-1947) Oenologie Catalog 1928
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) in Salon 1886, Dujardin Catalog 1928
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) in Salon 1886, Dujardin Catalog 1928
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Time Magazine Aug1943 Abbot Burns Designer Of Graphical Firing Table Slide Rule for Artillery
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Edward Teller (1908-2003) Weapons Designer
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Don Charlwood 1943 Author Of: No Moon Tonight at Navigators Table, Lancaster
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Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956) with Frederick L. Fuller of IBM
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Gerry Openshaw G2BTO working at Wartime RSS DF (radio) Station
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Bill Hewlett (d2001) and David Packard (d1996) c1939, founders of Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Bill Hewlett, co founder of Hewlett-Packard, Holds an early Pickett
magnesium slide rule on the 20th anniversery (1992) of the HP-35 Electronic Slide Rule which made the slide rule obsolete.
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Trevor Baylis, Inventor Of Wind Up Radio, Times 2003
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William Russell (1920-2006) of Russell-Hobbs, Founded 1952
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Reimar Horten (c1920-1994) Designed the WWII Era German Ho229 Flyingwing Jet Aircraft c1945
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Zepplin Anton Witteman (Navigator), Dr. Hugo Eckener (Captain) LZ126 Los Angeles 1924
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Wern Brothers Carl and George, Designers Of IWA Slide Rules, c1950
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Loga User From De Loga Calculators by Nico Smallenburg 2004
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Loga User From De Loga Calculators by Nico Smallenburg 2004
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NASA X15 Engineers Ken Iliff and Dale Reed, Langley Lenticular Lifting Body
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Society Of Women Engineers
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Le Tourneau Technical Institute, Texas. Slide Rule Class
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IIT Engineering Class Using Slide Rules1941
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The Mimes (c1913) University Of Michigan
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Berkeley University Coed Showing Pickett Slide Rule
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Stephen Swenson, University Of Wisconsin 1970s
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North Carolina State University 1970s
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Escola Americana, Rio de Janiero. Carioca 1950 Yearbook, Seniors: Wiczek and Stekley
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Bergschule Bochum School Of Mines, Germany c1960
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Bergschule Bochum School Of Mines, Germany c1960
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Resonance Measurement Article, Westermanns Monatshefte, July1969
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Michigan State University c1960
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US Dept Of Health Education And Welfare Booklet office Of Education 1963
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D&P Frederick Mueller (1922-1975) and Rolf Jaeger (1914-1979)
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D&P Reinhard Klein from 55 Years Of D&P
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Aristo Quality Control 1972 Brochure
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Greg Cosimini collector,April 1996, Twin Cities Collector
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Harry V Keefe Jr 1922 - From American Banker, Dec1922. Founder of Keefe, Bruyete And Woods Investment Bank
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Ralph Rawlings, Tasmania, collector. Australian Post 26-11-87
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Giovanni Pastore,Italy. collector. From Times Higher Education Supplement 14-05-04
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Cornered The Slide Rule Market
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Dalai Lama and Disciple discuss SR
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Dalai Lama And Duke Of Edinburgh Compare SRs
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Chemistry In Action, D.C. Heath Co. Boston 1958
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Mr. Tweedy Slide Rule Bankruptcy
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Outland by Berkeley Breathed Slide Rule 12-26-1993
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Ron Manley from Men And Collections c2001
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Gerald Stancey UKSRC 1956
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David Grey UKSRC, Winner Of European Speed Slide Rule Contest 2002
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David Grey UKSRC
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Werner Rudowski UKSRC, Working In Japan
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Werner Rudowski UKSRC, SR Exhibition In Bochum, Germany 1991
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Werner Rudowski UKSRC, SR Exhibition In Bochum Germany 1991
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Francis Wells UKSRC 1999
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Peter Hopp UKSRC at Smithsonian Institute Math History Museum 2002
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Tom Wyman, Oughtred Society, Presenting To School 2006
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Herman van Herwijnen (1929-2004) UKSRC with Demonstration Slide Rules
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Richard Smith Hughes UKSRC, Chief Designer Of Shrike Missile Electronics
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Hugh Tidy (d2005) UKSRC c1956
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John V. Knott (1919-2005) UKSRC from Collectomania
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Clay Castleberry OS UKSRC 2007
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Paul Wirz Real gymnasium Basil Switzerland, before (1936) and after (1998).
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Michael West UKSRC Managing Director of Frome Tool And Gauge Co, Somerset
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John Rendell UKSRC, c1959 As a Young Man Being Shown How To Use SR,Womans Own Magazine
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David Whythe UKSRC 1980, Inventor Of Whythe Complex Number Slide Rule
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Rechenschieber Sammler Treff (RST) Meeting at Alten School
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First European Open Slide Rule Competition, Leamington Spa, 27-OCT-2002
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Pre-UKSRC 1989, Jim Andrews,Werner Rudowski,John Knot, Dr. Brian Lloyd, and RichardKnight
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Pre-UKSRC 1989,The Beginning Of UKSRC
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Guenter Kugel RST, 2004 From Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Bob Thaves, cartoonist, 1940s from Book Of Madness,University Of Minnisota
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Cartoons from Stanford University magazine Chaparral c1960
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Acme Slide Rules Wall Street Journal
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Mathew Pritchett Daily Telegraph Millenium Bug
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Spanked With Slide Rule, National Lampoon Art Poster Book 1975
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Oliver Wendell Jones chased by his Slide Rule - BerkeleyBreathed
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C.O. Harris from Slide Rule Simplified 1943
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National Lampoon Yearbook, Slide Rule Club 1964
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Madam Hildas cartoon Mysteries Of The Slide Rule Unveiled
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German Slide Rule Cartoon
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German Slide Rule Cartoon
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Cartoon by Harley Schwadron, 2002 Tribune Media
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Cartoonbank Abbacus Is Down
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Daily Mail Political Cartoon 2004
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Abucus Cartoon
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Cartoon Mocking Dr. Peter Mark Rogets Inventions 1975, Thesaurus and Log Log Slide Rule
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Dudley Williams, Sir Frank Whittle and J.C.B.(Col) Tinling
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Baldessano Plotting Fire Mission, B 1/77th FDC Artillery Vietnam 1970
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1977 Longest Slide Rule of 12 Meters, Clarence T. Hay, Randy R. and Jeff H. Meyer
Of Huron Heights Secondary School, New Market, Ontario, Canada
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WWII British WAAF with Weather SR Article In The Business 1-13-2001
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Man Holding Plow Plane And Two Foot Ruler With Slide
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Keisan Team Slide Rule, Kanazawa Municiple Technical High School, Japan
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2006 Ch4 TV Series On Returning To Old Fashioned Teaching Methods
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Lane Community College, Oregon c1970
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Syracuse University Professors Inspect A Thacher Cylindrical Slide Rule
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Measuring Casks - 16th Century Austria, from 1989 Barrel Mensuration And Ullage byRobertENelson
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Boethius And Pythagoras, from G. Reish, Margarit Philosophica 1503
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Joseph In His Shop, c1425 Early Instrument Maker by Robert Campin
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Nevil Shute, Slide Rule An Autobiography Of An Engineer
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Physics Of Blown Sand And Desert Dunes by Ralph A. Bagnold 1941
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1985-86 TV Series Mapp And Lucia Showing Fuller Slide Rule
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1964-68 TV Series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea with actor Richard Basehart
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Nicktoons Episode Hail To The President 2005
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1954 Ealing File The Maggie starring Paul Douglas
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1970s TV Series UFO actor Ed Bishop holding Slide Rule
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July 2005 Readers Digest About The Curta by Cliff Stoll
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Secret War by Brian Johnson 1979, 1940-41 English Navigator Doing Dead Reckoning
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Battle Of Britian by Len Deighton 1980, German Aircrew Planning Attack c1940
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Russian Pilots WWII
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Air Navigation by Herbert S. Zim, 1943 US Army Pilots Doing Dead Reckoning Flight Planning
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German Luftwaffe Crew Plotting Course Using Dreieckrechner
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German Luftwaffe Navigators Using Dreieckrechner
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Air Traffic Controller The World At War Sep 1939-April 1944
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Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Pilots 1943 Flight International Aug 1989
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German Enigma Being Decoded 1940 The Secret War by Brian Johnson 1979
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German Enigma Being Decoded 1940 The Secret War by Brian Johnson 1979
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William Oughtred Images
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Gaugers At Work from Round London by George Newness 1866
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Excise Officer from The Excise Officers And Their Duties by John Pink 2002
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Guagers At Work Customs And Excise History Network Crown
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Jules Dujardin And Assistant, Alcohol Measurment Dujardin Paris Catalog 1928
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BBC TV Series The Great War - No25 Artillery Slide Rule
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Czech Artillery Spotters WWII
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British Artillery Spotters In Malta WWII
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Photo of Lt.A. Becket And Lee And Myself Observing, Shoeburyness July 1901
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Applied Observation Of Fire MKVI c1902-03
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Artillery Course Shoeburyness 1901
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5th Army M/Sgt Frank E. Rogore And Major Ivan E. Jackson, Sessa Italy 1944
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Railway Workers Steam Engineers c1890
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Georgia Institute Of Technology, Slide Rule And Planimeter
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Engineer - US Dept Labor from National Compensation Survey
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2002 Braintree And Witham Times, Charity Fancy-Dress Cross-Country Flight
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2002 Classic Racer BSA Team At IOM-TT 1921 No Slide Rules Graffiti on wall
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Sky And Telescope Magazine Sep 2002 What You Dont Need
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Adam Hart-Davis uses Astrolab TV Series What The Tudors Did For Us
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Der Rechenschieber by H.W. Fricke, L. Lehmann, Helmar Leipzig 1961
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Astounding Science Fiction Feb 1959, artist Frank Kelly Freas
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Playboy April 1959 Slide Rule Cover Plans For A Wondeful Weekend
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William Henry Fowler or Harold Fowler at Fowler Factory 1905
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From Chemistry In Action D.C. Heath Co. Boston 1958
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Sculptor: Death Of The Slide Rule by Werner Rudowski 1989
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Statue Of Harold R. Pape, 1903-1975, Moncova, North Mexico, Philanthropist who ran AHMSA
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Sir Isaac Newton by Eduardo Paolozzi 1995
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Universitat Greifswald architecture
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Dino Bencini Figurine Engineer With Slide Rule c1960
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Modified Cartoon, Mocking a slide rule Collector by his wife
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MIT slide rule sculptor 1990 on campus
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Acumath ad c1960's Have Slide Rule Will Travel
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KE Demo SR with Woman
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Clayton State University, Georgia 2004 Yellow Slide Rule Award Recipients. A traveling trophy given to staff members for a somewhat humorous action.
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Flight Path Sci-Fi Movie 1969
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Elyria (Ohio) High School Scholarship Winners 1957
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University Of Buffalo Slide Rule Exhibit
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Cornell University'a Annual Dragon Day Parade (2000) with Giant Slide Rule
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'Dad's' Big Slide Rule (name Unknown)
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Jerry-b slide rule and other accesories kept in car to easily calculate gas milage
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Buergi Joost (1552-1632) Lichtensteig Switzerland, Invented Logaritms in 1614 at the same time as Napier, who published first.
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Dad's (name unknown) Slide Rule, was used around 1945, then recently given to his son.
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Jed Hartman playing with Slide Rule as an infant
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Oregon State University (OSU) Engineering Mascot Benny Beaver Slide Rule and T-square Decal (1975)
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John Madl Scholarship, John gives Versalog Demo Rule to Lake Superior State University Engineering department
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Lear Jet Captain Shows Flight Officer How To Use Slide Rule (from Bob Soltis)
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London Science Museum sliderule display
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7 foot Pickett Demonstration Slide Rule transported on a BMW Motorcycle
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Slide Rule Tie Bar Ad
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University of Tasmania Demo SR
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Rodger Shepard And Thomas Wyman Holding Welch Demo Slide Rule.
Both Gentleman members of the Oughtred Society.
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US Naval Academy 1953
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US Naval Academy 1955, Midshipmen Steve Kaiser
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USNA Winning The Cold War Mural Academics Panel. Gifted in 1995 from the class of 1955.
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Working Slide Rule in the form of a Pencil Cup, Wojciech Sawicki Collection
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Wojciech Sawicki Lectures On Slide Rules, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June 2008
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Suwak Logarytmiczny (Logarithmith Slider) Collection Of Wojciech Sawicki, Warsaw Technological University, Poland
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Polish Magazine Article on Wojciech Sawicki's Display at Warsaw polytechnic 2005 (PDF)
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National Council Of Reserve Officers In Brazil c1940
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Dr. Werner Schmidt and Werner Girbart, in Greifswald, Germany,
show their 2009 Oughtred Society Award as printed in the Donerstag Newspaper.
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Artur Ewert (Germany/GDR) Looks at his Reiss Slide Rule that he designed c1969
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WWII artwork on a Bristol Beaufighter
RAF Squadron 603. From book called "The British Beaufighter -
a comprehensive guide for the modeller" by RA Franks, SAM Publications, Bedford, UK, 2002.
The Latin words INCERTI QUO FATA FERRENT mean "Uncertain what Fate brings".
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Mike Konshak shows current and past technology for Louisville Times
(Colorado) article on 10-7-2009 about his 2009 Oughtred Society Award.
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Dupont Teflon Ad showing Dietzgen Microglide Slide Rule (c1960)
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Spanish Military Plays with pet dog and Slide Rule. circa WWII. Contributed by Jose Robledo, Spain.
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Popular Mechanics Feb 1948 Cover Pg81 Book Ad The Slide Rule and How to Use It
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Star Trek's Dr. Spock with aviation Slide Rule
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Star Trek Crew with Circular Slide Rules
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Star Trek Crew with Circular Slide Rules
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Purdue University Statue Neil Armstrong Center
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Purdue University Statue Neil Armstrong Center, Close up of Slide Rule.
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Statue of Mathew Boulton (1728-1809), James Watt (1736-1819) and William Murdoch (1754-1839) studying
a plan of a steam engine designed by William Boyle on Broad Street in Birmingham, England. Boulton holds slide rule.
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Boulton-Watt-Murdoch Statue. Birmingham,England. Close up of Boulton's slide rule.
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Collector Peter Owen and his Post Versalog Demonstration Slide Rule.
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Ray (Last name unknown) With Pickett DEmo SR at MIT Cardinal And Grey Event 2009. (Flickr: BarbaraJean)
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Georgia Tech Alumni House Display. (Flickr: The_Varners)
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WW2 Radar Research Museum Display. (Flikr: Bob_the_bolder)
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Sliderule Exhibit, Bay Model Visitors Center Sausalito, California (Flikr: MaryMactavish)
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World Almanac 1944, Book Ad Mathematics Made Simple
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Lane Tech Slide Rule Club c1069 (Flickr: Patchman999)
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Pratt Institute Students Using K&E 101 Demo Slide Rule
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Linus Pauling 20 inch Slide Rule. Oregon State University Libraries - Special Collections Reading Room
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Mexia High School, Mexia, Texas. Class of 1959. Slide Rule Club (Flickr: macavityabc)
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J.C. Carter Self portrait (1956) Mirfield, West Yorkshire, UK.
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Eugene (last name unknown) at desk. Post Versalog Under Book. (Flikr: Randall_T)
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Artillery Slide Rule in the museum on the Battleship USS New Jersey.
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Iowa State Univ (1942) Slide Rule Exhibit.
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Computer History Museum, Mountainview California. Slide Rule Exhibit. Many of these donated by the ISRM.
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Pickett Demo SR Black Rock 2007 (Flickr: Phrynosoma)
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Slide Rule Art by Jon Delorey
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Slide Rule Art by Jon Delorey
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KE Model 101 Demo SR helf by Cousin of Mark and Bert (Flickr)
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Slide Rule Christmas Present (Flickr: ironklad)
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Slide Rule Guitar Frets by Ilya Sivov 2009
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Science Digest Cover, December 1960. Image of boy (child prodigy) getting a slide rule for Christmas.
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Popular Science slide rule Ad
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Heathkit Slide Rule Calculator Ad
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Scenes from the movie Tuskegee Airmen, (1995, HOB). Training session shows K&E
Demonstration Slide Rule in background.
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Montage of UTO Slide Rule Factory pictures. Contributed by I.J.Schuiteme
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Three Capetian French scholars consulting an astrolabe, ca. AD 1200
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Marlboro Ad with slide rule
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Pluggers Cartoon by Gary Brookins Published 11-3-2009
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Cover to the German book Der Rechenstab und seine Verwendung (1970) by Dr.Helmar Lehmann.
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German Mathematik Katalog (2006-2007) with slide rule teaching tools for math.
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International Meeting of Rechschieber and Calulators Collectors (2001) at
Deutsches Museum, Munich. High School Students learn about slide rules.
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RST (German Speaking Slide Rule Collectors) Meeting (2005) Hamburg's Museum, Germany
teach students slide rules.
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Ben-Nejat and Turkish Friends with Aristo Studio Slide Rules (1967) Netherlands.
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Professor A.M. (LIFE Images) Circular Slide Rule Shown (c1930)
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Student Drawing (2001) Abucus Class www.buhniversum.de
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Circular Slide Rule for Navigation shown in the Movie Memphis Belle
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Buzz Aldrin in Apollo 11 capsule with weightless Picket N600-ES slide_rule.
(Note: The model slide rule is eye-saver yellow but this appears to be a Model N600-T)
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rs-Vitrinen Und Demostab-gross (Musuem exhibit in Germany)
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Aristo 903LL Rechenschieber zu Demonstrationszwecken.
(Children being shown a demonstration Aristo 903LL slider rule)
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Dr. Presper Eckert (left) creator of ENIAC computer. Engineer leaning on post holds a slide rule.
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Newspaper article about collector Walter Shawlee in Canada.
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Darby Conley (2002) cartoon Bucky wants Compass, Slide Rule and... Courtesy of United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Darwin Slide Rule, a graphic by Larry Stewart.
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Do you see a slide rule? Only a collector would grasp this illusion.
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Winning at Work. Article/Book for women professionals.
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Professor Bergman with Hemmi 262P. 1970 TV Series Space 1999
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The Life Explorer Vol 3 Issue 6 (2004) Asian Scientific Article on slide rules (1.18MB PDF)
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Smart Investor Cover November 2002
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Scientific American Article May 2006 When Slide Rules Ruled by Cliff Stoll (16.8MB PDF)
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Pour La Science Article (French) Nov 2005 Slide Rule Extinction Programme by Noel Jouenne (3.98MB PDF)
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"Buzz" Carpenter with SR-71 Blackbird, used for USAF Intelligence. According to Buzz,
The SR-71 was the first stealth aircraft (non-detectable by radar) and the last to be
designed with a slide rule.
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2001 Sexiest Geek. Mill's college Professor Ellen Spertus
wears her dad's (graduate of MIT) slide rule holstered to leg at awards pageant.
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Frederick Post Slide Rule Retail Display - Try Before You Buy!
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Pickett Slide Rule Retail Display Stand. Tom Bullock Collection.
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Movie The Hindenburg (1975) George C. Scott Inspects Passenger's Circular Sliderule, thinking it
was used for coded messages of a corporate spy. It turns out it was for betting on horses. Time frame 1937.
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From a Cleveland Institute of Electronics correspondence school Pamphlet (1969)
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Nestler Factory (Slide Rule) Quality Control Inspector
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Nestler Factory (Slide Rule) (Rechenstab Endkontrolle) - Worker adjusting Cursor to Index
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Jürgen Nestler (Right) stands next to Mayor (left) of Lahr, Germany. Opening day of Nestler Exhibit.
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Opening day of Nestler Exhibit at Lahr Museum - Lahr, Germany.
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Opening day of Nestler Exhibit at Lahr Museum - Lahr, Germany. Attendees look at demonstration slide rule.
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Uchida Yoko Corporation Museum's innovative Projection Table. Project manager Nobuhiko Hirayama demonstrates by placing a small block that contains an image of a slide rule on the table, and an RIFD
chip tells a computer what to display on the table top. (2007)
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From Popular Electronics - June 1958 Article about Electronic Computers
Full Article (1.4 MB PDF)
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Popular Science Ad, May 1960, Wizard_adding_machine
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Motorola Engineering Recruitment Ad - Mention of SR, but no image.
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Two accountants using Swiss Daemon-Scmid (Loga) Cylindrical Slide Rule in the
Tabulating Office of the French 1911 Census. picture courtesy of
J.F. Ptak Books
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Hoboken (New Jersey) Historical Museum,
K&E Exhibit Flyer Jan 31 - Dec23, 2010.
Slide rules for the tours are supplied by the ISRM.
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In Like Flint 1967 Movie. Derek Flint (James Coburn) pulls a Slide Rule
(in the form of a measuring tape) out of his multi-function watch. He's calculating the
heartbeat rate of Russian astronauts. He determines they are females.
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Zorglub with sliderule (1962). From the Belgian comic strip series
Spirou et Fantasio album No. 16 "L'ombre du Z" (1962).
Mad scientist, Zorglub, is holding a sliderule and is being disturbed
by honking in the driveway. (contributed by Etienne Sourd, Montral, Canada).
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William S. Roe of the 66th Engineer Topographic Company (Japan) Using a Slide Rule.
Bill Roe later helped to found the National Association of Rocketry (NAR#13).
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Bob Barley (Left) and John Roe (w/Pith Helmet) members of 1959 NAR Peak City Section, Reduces Altitude Data With Slide Rule
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Over the Hedge Cartoon, March 16, 2005, by Michael Fry and T. Lewis.
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