Mike hi, I am glad you found the Slater at least half useful. I'm the poor bunny who scanned it and originally put it online. But since then I found a book ...
A couple of comments: 1. A lot of Slater is examples - but with an electronic calculator any student can produce their own examples. So you could always print...
Sorry for the errors in the calendar and thanks to those who pointed them out. The corrected version is available at: http://www.sliderules.clara.net/ Regards...
Hi Cyron, My thinking from what I have seen of Pickett's logic would be more towards possibility no. 4, it is a "still-born" model that never was released. I...
Hi Michael and everyone else, I have sent Michael a couple of e-mails on this subject off of his e- mail address link from this forum, but I think they are...
Greetings, I have had a number of people sending me information on Pickett slide rules in their collection. One just happened to send it in a format that is...
Hello All New member here . Wishing you all the best in 2003. I am comforted in the knowledge that there are all of you out there today whose pursuit of...
Welcome Matthew! We do have fun and learn a lot from each other. Do not hesitate to ask questions. There is always some one to help. That is what is so great...
This question was posted back in August. I just joined the group and no seems to have answered it, so I'll respond. ... and ... what ... is ... scanned ... ...
Greetings, I placed the order with Concise a few weeks ago, and have received payments from almost everyone on the order list. Concise started work on the...
Greetings, The products in the ISRG Store have been updated for 2003. Yiou can take a look at them at: http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=slide_rule ...
Hello, My name is Jim and I am new to this group. I've been collecting slide rules for about 20 years, very passively at first but more intensely as of late. I...
Greetings, I have posted a 3rd draft of the Pickett XREF to the "files" section. Regards, Michael [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hello Everyone. Just wanted to offer my thanks to Ron Manley, and to Michael O'Leary for another good tip. I've downloaded the Teach Yourself The Slide Rule...
Hi Jim, Welcome. Many of us collected for years thinking we were the only one. The Journal of the Oughtred Society had a comprehensive article about dating the...
Hi David and others interested in this: I'm just back in town after the holidays and now have access to my reference library again... I just checked my 3000+...
Hi Louis: Doing some upkeep in my in-box, I discovered your more than a month old posting. I couldn't see any replies. DRP No 126499 is a patent # that appears...
I have scanned for a fellow collector the "Instructions for Using Fowler's Patent Calculator" from the "Fowler's Mechanics' and Machinists' Pocket Book. 1916"....
Jim, Welcome to the group. The scale arrangement, and the tables on the back of your rule look like those on my Faber 360. As a guess, that's what I think...
Hello Jim, I went through Herman van Herwijnen's CD-ROM's with the slide rule catalogue, but couldn't find a picture that resembles your slide rule. From the...
Greetings Pano, We have several websites hosting manuals on our behalf. I hope one of them has room for another! <g> In the meantime, I would really like to...
Can anyone tell me where to find notice for Otis cylinder? Thanks and Happy New Year. Hug [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Hello Wayne, You say, according Dieter von Jezierski, the DRGM 98350 is issued in the years 1926 upto 1928. Please could you tell me where in Dieter's book I...
Mea Culpa: Having seen Simon's note just now, I scampered off to re-examine my copy of von Jezierski. The numbers that I had thought bracketted the DGRM...
Thanks so much to all that have responded to my request for info on this A.W. Faber. (with the dot after the name!) slide rule. You have given me several...
Simon, I noticed the "dot" after Faber also appears on the case. Is that consistent with the era also, or does that "dot" appear on cases when it doesn't...
Pano, I'm happy to add it to the collection of scanned manuals on my site if you would like to mail it to me. Cheers Greg ... Greg Scott gscott@... ......
I'm surprised that nobody has suggested J.E.Thompson: The Standard Manual of the Slide Rule. It has a short history of the SR, a very logical introduction to...
Hello Jim, Wayne and Charlie, Today I went trough my collection again and found a slide rule by A.W. Faber. (mind the dot) that resembles the questioned rule. ...
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