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  • Members: 1645
  • Category: Mathematics
  • Founded: Dec 21, 1998
  • Language: English
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The International Slide Rule Group "ISRG" is devoted to collectors of slide rules and associated mechanical calculating instruments.


You may contact the listowner at:

sliderule-owner@yahoogroups.com

To subscribe, send an email to:

sliderule-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

If you are serious about slide rule collecting, it is highly recommended that you consider joining The Oughtred Society.



For our members that are also on Facebook, be sure to join our group there: ISRG - Sliderule.


Brought to you by:

Cyril Catt  -  Andrew Davie  -  Gary Flom  -  Craig Kielhofer  -  Jerome Mc Kenna

Slide rules are THE ORIGINAL solar powered calculators. Try using one in the dark and you'll see I'm right, or not see as the case may be. This is your groupowners attempt at humor.


The picture above is courtesy of 'The Slide Rule Universe' and is the slide rule coin they have for sale. Check them out at the SRU site.

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Re: No brand bamboo slide rule??
Shoot; i have a Castell Universal with both German and English manuals and am not asking _that_ much..
Posted - Sun May 27, 2012 6:39 am
Robert Baer
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Re: Cleaning (W & G 432) /Breaking In (Versalog II)
Rod V. says, " ... you have to rub really HARD and long to get the excess ink off (I guess they don't call it "permanent" marker for nothing!). ..." Have you
Posted - Sun May 27, 2012 4:14 am
Ronald McConnell
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Re: Rules with typo's
On the next to last page of the 1926 Edition of K&E's "The Log Log Duplex Slide Rule," the picture of the Merchant's (Calculating) Slide Rule is displayed
Posted - Sun May 27, 2012 4:13 am
Maynard Wright
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Re: No brand bamboo slide rule??
If it were mine - I'd ask about two grand for it - you never know! From: sliderule@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sliderule@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Baer
Posted - Sat May 26, 2012 12:45 pm
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No brand bamboo slide rule??
I have this nice loglog, folded and regular scales (19 tot) bamboo slide rule that has no logo, only "MADE IN U.S.A." (no quotes) on it. Does anyone have a
Posted - Sat May 26, 2012 6:19 am
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