Recently a 5" Pickett N4 sold for $330 on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=110394330624 Why the high price for...
Whatever's going on, he is a newbie bidding on a lot of stuff within the last hour if I read the limited amount of info about a bidder that ebay allows. High...
The seller must have been pleasantly surprised, having set a $10 minimum. Five bidders went over $100 and two bidders over $300. Those last two had a battle in...
A while ago I asked about cleaning my 2/83 Faber-Castell, I tried vinegar and one of those 2 sided sponges with scotch brite on one side and sponge on the...
... There are solid game-theory explanations why sniping is advantageous. See this article from 6 years ago from the Society for Industrial and Applied...
Speaking of cleaning, on the back of my new 63/83 F-C box, they mention the 211 liquid & 211 paste. Does anyone have any idea of how to obtain either of these...
Sometimes when I scan headlines, or Subject: lines quickly, I get odd results. This time, I was left wondering, what does vinegar and Scotch taste like... or...
Hi Ed, In message 24794 (Sep 2004), Walter Shawlee mentions the arrvival of bottles of Geropur. I can't imagine there was a stampede for the stuff so he may...
THE OUGHTRED SOCIETY'S 2009 ANNUAL WEST COAST MEETING You are invited to attend the Eighteenth Annual Oughtred Society West Coast Meeting, which will be held...
Ebay 360159234414 has a SR listed as a 4053 but the stator looks like something else. The "A" scale seems to begin with the number 10 instead of a 1. I...
Hi Les The rule is a K&E 4100. The seller is probably reading from the green box which got swapped. You can read the model number in the last picture of the ...
I don't think that this has been reported yet, but I was watching Season 2 of the tv series, "The Unit", episode 13, "Sub-Conscious" where I noted a slide...
End 2008 IJzebrand Schuitema has donated his extensive collection of slide rules to the "Arithmeum", the museum of calculating instruments in Bonn, Germany. ...
My friend's father acquired this slide rule a few years back, and just found out that I am an enthusiast and asked me to identify it. It is way beyond my ken,...
Anybody have a copy of "Manual for the Slide Rule" by Drooyan and Wooton, (C) 1964? I just got a copy for 2 bucks at a used bookstore's going out of business...
this is a very curious rule. I don't recognize it at all. The back side has folded scales labeled C2, D2 as far as I can tell but folded at root 10 and not pi....
Hi All, Have just down-loaded a copy of this book - takes quite a time! - and have started to peruse it. IJzebrand Schuitema's collection is awe-inspiring,...
Dear all, I have just sent the list and images of the slide rules on offer to all who had wrote to me in response to my initial message a couple of weeks ago. ...
Zvi Doron
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... I too have downloaded it, and wish I could afford a printed copy. Many thanks to the author and publisher for their amazing generosity in providing the...
When do you think this rule was made? It seems to have a DI scale on the front which is/was not a common scale. I thought K&E introduced the DI scale for more...
This must be not have been a widely produced book. I search Bookfinder as a source and could not find a copy. Drooyan and Wooton wrote several algebra books...
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