... Hallo, Even if I never heard about this particular rule, I can maybe help you to know a little more, being one of the (not many) italians in this mailing...
... the ... Hallo, I can maybe offer some information as an Italian member of this group. Can you please post some photos of this rule and the first pages of...
The Collins microwave SR's had special scales for calculating microwave propagation. The scuttlebutt around here has it that the majority of the rules inside...
... wrote: [snipsnip] ... Watson, I don't know if this helps, but there's a bit of company history here:- http://www.slideruleguy.com/projection_sr.htm I'm not...
... Hardly "thankless", I'd say. I'd be happy to thank them! However, the real reason for this mail is to enquire if there are any UKSRC committee members...
John Mosand poses an interesting "thread", so here goes my 2+cents worth. While browsing "mathematics" sites on the net, I ran across the Oughtred Society....
I have a Pickett N16-ES that I bought in the early 1970s. Is this slide rule rare? I haven't seen them on eBay. Does anyone know anything about Chan Street,...
Would like to express my appreciation and thanks to all those responsible for producing a truly outstanding and unique reference work. For all those who have...
Dear All, I've added a PDF'd version of the English version of manual for the Aristo 0958 Geodät (Surveyor) Stadia Slide Rule. I'd like to thank Dave Thompson...
I counted 10 N16's since 1999, and 9 Pickett 18 and 19's since november 2000. Noël Cotter <unspellable@...> wrote:I've seen more N16's than microwave...
I have a Faber-Castell 2/83 N SR, with a very faint 77 followed by a smaller 3 stamped on one end of the slide. Does that refer to the date of manufacture?...
I see. But the question remains If the unique scales on the rules are useful for anything besides what they were used for back in the day. Noël Cotter...
The Pickett N16-ES is not rare, but it's not overly common either. It's viewed as a desirable item by collectors and so between numbers available and demand it...
A little searching for "Chan Street" turned up a couple of interesting references. One was from our own John Savard at http://www.quadibloc.com/math/sr02.htm...
Information about Chan Street is a recurring question on the ISRG list. I've asked a couple of times if there is someone on the ISRG list who has access to a...
I wonder if this http://www.vialattea.net/cosmo/distance.htm has any bearing on the function of your rule, especially as Francesco da Monza mentions that the...
... november 2000. ... Rob and All, A count of just 10 N16's struck me as kind of low for the last 5-1/2 years of eBay sales, so I went back to Rod Lovett's...
Bear in mind also that a surprising number of these rules are really badly misdescribed: I can't tell you how many times I've found gold hiding under the label...
Yes, the search feature on that site is difficult to use. From my perspective, I've been looking for an N 16 for a while, and am always looking for Picketts....
Assuming you want to use one, I think a slide rule for electronics is every bit as viable today as it was several decades ago. As you said, the mathematics is...
I did not get my N16 from Ebay. I got a MIB set, N16-ES and N600-ES MIB, from The Slide Rule Emporium - Dick Schwartz - He did not have any Pickett 18 or 19...
Hey all, The subject is my latest acquisition that arrived today. This slide rule came in a very nice cloth-cardboard box with the Capitol Radio logo, name,...
Here's some partial answers to the questions Joe Bento asks (below) about his Aristo-Scholar LL 0903LL rule. 1. In terms of scales and markings, Aristo made...
CHARVOZ was an importer/distributor for Aristo. Some times as Charvoz-Roos. DBGM means 'protected pattern', something like 'copyright'. '65939' isn't a serial...
Joe et. al. Charvoz was a French maker/distributor of drafting tools. I think much like Dietzgen or K &E.I know they made some of their own tools but a lot...
... The fine "D&P Aristo" book from IM2004 has the full instructions in German on a CD. If nobody else can offer English instructions, then I'll have a look...
I forgot to mention - Capitol Radio Engineering Institute is also engraved on the rear upper stator of the slide rule. I should scan it and post the photos....
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