Dear Slide Rulers! I'd like to make a simple cardboard slide rule myself. Can you recommend a software that I could use to make the logarithmic scales easily?...
Thia Purdue exhibit had a picture in Monday's USA Today newspaper with two holding a large demo Pickett slide rule. It was in the life style section. Marion...
The East Coast Meeting of the Oughtred Society will be held November 6 in East Windsor, NJ, right of the turnpike, and thus easily reached. I will be sending...
Greetings: Freeman Dyson!!!! ===== Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, "Notebook") ...
Gary: These angles are the same at about 53.1 degrees. I did it the hard way. There are four lines and I figured angle acd = arctan of m2-m1/(1+m1*m2), and...
All slide rule enthusiasts are invited to attend the next Slide Rule Convention and World Championship Slide Rule Competition on Saturday, October 23 in ...
... s p o i l e r s p o i l e r The co-ordinates of the point b are an intentional distraction for, as it turns out ................. The four(4) points lie on...
Also the Nestler 0130 has markings at 1.1, 1.2, .... 1.9 on CI and CIF scales. Actually, the leading "1." is omitted, so only 1, 2,..., 9 to signify 1.1,...
David and Bill, Thanks for your correct answers. And David, that is what I was driving at. Just compute the easier angle, the other angle does not need to be...
... S p o i l e r S p a c e I used the near obsolete pencil & paper method :-) with the virtual calclulator on the computer for the last arccosines. For...
... Not what you asked for... but: http://www33.brinkster.com/nsg21/slide/sryae.htm lets you generate slide rules that work in Opera. I've got a copy at...
... aggh - sorry. That repost was an accident. I just wanted to clarify I mentioned Opera because the Javascript slide rule emulator above doesn't work with...
Dear Slide Rule Makers, I would like to make a slide rule. Can It be done with Excel in Office 97 under windows XP home version? Thanks for any help, Steve...
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Mike, Thanks for your detailed explanation ! :) Gary Flom ... From: "Mike Markowski" <mm@...> To: <sliderule@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September...
If you have access to an old stock of semi-log graph paper (does anyone actually plot data now-days??), you can use a "paper-dolls" method. (If you are looking...
To all SR do-it-yourselfers and logophiliacs: I have a spectacular book from www.topscience.org by TOPS Learning System entitled "Far Out Math 43". Author is...
... Gary, Sounds like you need two copies! One to keep, one to cut. Jim _______________________________________ James Stephens, PhD 601-599-4260 (h) 29 Park...
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I just discovered that Stamps.com is USPS-approved to let you create your own custom postage stamps, using your own photographs: http://photo.stamps.com/ I...
... If osmeone wants to go to the trouble ol plotting, download CADstd and you can do the plotting from there. Be prepared to spend long hours plotting and...
Herman van Herwijnen made many contributions for which I have been grateful over the years, perhaps none more so than the wonderful collection of images of...
It's not new or anything, but I ran across this article : http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol34/vol34n13/articles/SlideRules.htm l Gives a good little schpeel...
All, It is relatively easy to generate a JPEG or GIF file of slidr rule scales at, say, 300 dpi or higher. I have some routines in matlab that enable me to ...
Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to meet Herman; I'm sure that he must have been at Breukelen, but somehow we never met. However, it is clear that he...
Picked one of these up today-in very good condition, c/w one of those rather nice A W Faber cardboard boxes- also in very good order. It is a 10 inch rule and...
Greetings --- We have successfully filled another request for slide rules from a teacher, ISRG member Paul Huff, who teaches at West Bloomfield High School in...
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