John Kay's estimates of production and survival are an excellent starting point for more data and for speculation. My three-cents worth is about the amount of...
I'm seeking more information about the British-made "Technical" series of slide rules. What follows is a summary of what I've found and then a question. The...
... rule from 1907 on and into their Aristo era. It had six LL scales, all of them on the same side. The first slide rule with such a set of scales? That is at...
... Actually, you will need to branch to the page http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Cameras.htm and scroll down there to see that picture. John Savard...
... Does anyone have any idea what has become of these millions of Hemmi purchased by the students? Are they being saved as a part of the family heritage? ...
I taught high school physics/chemistry/math/photography and the lecture room had a 5 foot long slide rule over some monster sliding blackboards which I used...
I think that your total for world wide production is way underestimated. E.g. Aristo (D&P) made 12+ million in the period 1948-75. They made slide rules for...
I didn't see the show and I can't remember the previous discussion. In any case since Fermi was Italian my conjecture is that they used a Nestler (the most...
The slide rule seems to have come into common use by engineers in the late 19th century. As slide rules tended to be personal items, perhaps the total number...
I am looking for the instruction manuals for Ricoh/Relay 156 and 158 rules. I was able to locate scans for model 157 at Greg's site (thank you Greg,) but no...
[In haste and in a senior moment, I sent this one first to "sliderule-trade" instead of just "sliderule" as I discovered when we returned from out of town.] ...
Ron I find my best bargains under "slideruler". "sliderules" is also a good one. Keuffel and esser is so badly misspelled that I search separately on "keuffel"...
I already have one, but there is a bargain for someone: a Richardson 1917 military slide rule. $10 opening, no reserve, but no bids yet. Ebay # 3270141206...
... Reading your post caused me to try a brief web search for information about the British Slide Rule Company. That brought me to Ron Manley's site, and I...
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 11:11:50 -0500 ... They are in stationery stores all over Japan. Bill Lise ... W. A. Lise Japanese Slide Rules sliderules@... Tel...
My thanks to both Marion and Ray for the explanations of the special marks on my Pickett’s ST scale. A few minutes of playing around with it made it clear. ...
I just happen to be curious... The Aristo 869 StudioLog pocket model (29 scales) was introduced in 1974, at a time when several manufacturers were shutting...
... Welch Scientific, a major supplier of instruments for classroom demonstration and student laboratory use. Established 1880, with headquarters in Skokie,...
Greetings, There are a lot of things we do on this list which may not be obvious to newcomers, and some of us veterans need reminders from time to time, too....
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Doing a web search, I find that Sargent-Welch is still in business, at http://sargentwelch.com/ From their site, we can see that in 1968, Welch Scientific...
Speaking of uncommon slide rule companies, I have a demonstration rule made by Math-U-Matic of Oklahoma City, OK. It's around 8 feet long (barely stands on...
Yesterday I acquired 3 books written by Jisuke MIYAZAKI, head of the Hemmi research department, in the 1930s. One of them lists Japanese slide rule related...
On the internet I found that the inflation rate of 1915 relative to 2003 was 18.20. Picking a couple of items from the 1913 K&E Catalogue (see the latest JOS),...
Rod Lovett has an 803 on his web site. ... From: John Mosand <Subject: SR 869? 803? I just happen to be curious... snip And the 803 (the only 'Scholar' pocket...
The walls of our local TGI-Fridays restaurant are decorated with all sorts of "antique stuff", including a very nice 5-foot long, yellow plywood Pickett 500 LL...
Hello Charlie, I don't know anything about the Math-U-Matic slide rule, but I do know that Pickett had a similar mount for their 7 footers also. It was kind...
... I think the potential collector market for slide rules can be influenced from unexpected sources. Two recent examples are a surge in interest in Nixie...
... It's a classic technique in the antiques/collectables business - you build a large collection of some obscure and cheap artifact, write the price guide,...
Hi everyone perhaps someone should write a popular book on the history of sliderules which could appeal to the general public along the lines of "Longitude"...
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