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Sample Articles from the Journal of the Oughtred
Society. The Oughtred Society is pleased to present five articles from
past issues of the Journal - click the titles below to download the PDF files.
- The Fall 2012 (21.2) Journal will contain the following articles and more:
- The Faber Manuals by Pickworth
- Chemical Slide Rules: Their History and Use
- Oughtred Society Scholarship Program
- Reactance and Associated Slide Charts
- The Holdman Slide Rule That is Not a SR
- SRs and WWII Bombing: a Personal History
- K&E's Beatley IQ Slide Rule
- Inside the Otis King Patent Calculator
- Wichman Aristo: Determining True North
- Alternative Trig. Solutions for Rietz-type SRs
- The 'Reka Rechenapparat' and Other Tablets
- Tens Carry...Josef Funke's Adding Device
- About a French Circular Slide Rule...
- Book Reviews
- Two Celestial Navigation Slide Rules
- Winter Meeting Attendees in California
- Member Survey 2012
- Oughtred Society Annual Meeting
Sample Articles from the Journal of the Oughtred
Society. The Oughtred Society is pleased to present five articles from
past issues of the Journal - click the titles below to download the PDF files.
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September 21-23, 2012 IM 2012 - 18th International Meeting of Slide Rule & Historic Calculating Instrument Collectors "SLIDE RULES for the TRADES". The UK Slide
Rule Circle is pleased to again host this regular annual event. This will be held at
Bletchley Park, home of the wartime codebreakers. Our main meeting will take place in the
Library of the historic Victorian Mansion. See further information under Meetings.
Printable Information. 396Kb PDF
Registration Form 27Kb PDF
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Message Board - We now have a way to communicate with each other on a secure
Message Board: Use this forum to read or post messages for exchanging information.
You must be a current OS member and log-in to post messages. Give it a try!
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2011 Awards & Fellowships were announced at the IM2011 held in Boston, USA -
go to the OS Awards webpage to see who the 2011 OS Award went to
and which members were honored with a Fellowship.
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Second edition of the Pocket Book of the Gauge Marks by P. Venetsianos.
From 2006 through 2010, new members of the Oughtred Society were pleasantly surprised to receive
with their very first Journal a complimentary copy of the Pocket Book of the Gauge Marks by
Panagiotis (Pano) Venetsianos. The booklet contained some sixty pages of gauge marks, the special
marks along slide rule scales for often-used constant values.
The Oughtred Society is out of stock of these original booklets; however, Pano has now published
under the aegis of the Oughtred Society a second edition of the booklet, greatly extended to more
than 140 pages. This new version is available for sale to ALL slide rule collectors at the no-profit
cost price. The Internet on-demand publishing service Lulu has been chosen to produce and ship the
second edition booklets. The initial price is $8.94 excluding shipping (typically $3.99 USPS).
To order a copy go to lulu.com and search for books in
the English language using the keyword
"venetsianos".
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The UKSRC has announced that the UK's largest public exhibition of slide rules has been
unveiled at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, the specimens being contributed
by the members of UKSRC. News anouncements may be seen at
MKNEWS and
PCW's Labs. The members of the Oughtred Society wish to
congratulate UKSRC for this achievement in bringing slide rules to the British public.
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IM2011 (International Meeting of Slide Rule Collectors) will be hosted by the
Oughtred Society at MIT in Boston. This 17th annual meeting will be held in
2011 in the USA for the first time, previously being been held in Europe and the
United Kingdom. The Oughtred Society takes great pleasure in hosting this
significant event in the 20th anniversary year of the founding of the Society.
Additional information.
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Call for Nominations - The Oughtred Society Award
and Fellowships for 2011. Nominations are now being
accepted for these prestigious Awards.
Please send your nominations to a member of the
Award Committee : David Rance, Chair (Email :
osaward[at]xs4all.nl); Gary Flom, Clark McCoy,
Peter Hopp, Peter Holland. Any nominations must be received
no later than: July 30th 2011. See the OS Awards section of this web
site for additional information.
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K&E Display in Hoboken An exhibit of K&E items will be on display during 2010 at the
Hoboken Historical Museum
in Hoboken, New York as part of the K&E exhibit, "Surveying The World". Students are
handed slide rules during the tour for hands-on understanding of the principles involved.
30 slide rules were provided by the International
Slide Rule Museum's SR Loaner program, supported by the Oughtred Society.
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The 2010 Oughtred Society Hall of Fame recipients have been
announced. Our congratulations to the two (2) Award winners and five (5) new OS Fellows!
A comprehensive Index for the Journal of the Oughtred Society
has been added to the Journal section of this website. This Index was compiled by
Oughtred Society member Barry Dreikorn. Many thanks to Barry for this monumental
and extremely useful piece of work! The Index provides Article title, Author's name, Item number,
Page number, Article Summary and a Keyword list. It is fully searchable. Click
JOURNAL here or in the main menu at left.
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