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Slide Rule Seminar

Download this presentation (3MB PDF) consisting of over 55 slides on:
How To Use the Slide Rule
This is an ideal teaching tool for displaying in front of a class or for individual self-study. Brought to you by the International Slide Rule Museum and the Oughtred Society.


Slide Rule Books and Manuals

  • All About Slide Rules
    The Oughtred Society is pleased to present this new document for all to use. With this document, the Oughtred Society wishes to introduce itself and provide a service to the great numbers of slide rule enthusiasts, collectors, and users with whom the Society is not currently acquainted. In doing this, the Society extends an invitation to all to join us in this fascinating pursuit. This online document, All About Slide Rules, presents what its title suggests, complete information about slide rules. In its seventeen chapters, with 103 pages and 114 photographs, it contains information of all types, from What Is a Slide Rule and How It Works, to History, to Common and Less Common Types, to How to Use a Slide Rule, to Major Makers and Some of Their Common Models, to Books and Manuals, to Cleaning and Care, to Slide Rules on the Internet, to Collecting ... and more.

  • Books, Manuals, and Articles
    This chapter from the All About Slide Rules book is a reference list containing 75 books and manuals, compiled by David Sweetman.

  • K&E Salisbury Products Division Slide Rules
    A personal story by former K&E Production Manager and Plant Manager, Joseph L. Soper, including many of the details of the latter years of K+E's slide rule manufacturing and production. There are 102 photos shown within the 145 pages of this book.

  • The United Kingdom Slide Rule Circle (UKSRC) has more than 200 reprints available at low cost. See the List of Reprints [Acrobat PDF document]. To order, Contact the UKSRC by e-mail at "peter.hopp@clara.co.uk". Or visit the UKSRC's Web site.

  • Books and Manuals are available from slide rule dealers and on eBay from time to, and as scans for free download. See, variously, these sources:
  • The German Slide Rule Group (Rechenschieber-Sammler-Treffen) maintains a recommended book list on their RST Web site.

  • The Dutch Circle of Slide Rule Collectors maintains a recommended book list on their Circle Web site.


Article References

Rod Lovett maintains a searchable database of the slide rule literature published in:

  • The Oughtred Society's Journal of the Oughtred Society.
  • The United Kingdom Slide Rule Circle's Skid Stick and Slide Rule Gazette
  • Proceedings of the International Meetings of Slide Rule Collectors,

Hyperbolic Slide Rules

Bill Robinson has been continually updating this significant work from when it was first published in the Oughtred Society Journal in 2005


Why Slide Rules Work

Mathematical Foundations of the Slide Rule, by Professor Joe Pasquale, University of California, San Diego

Abstract: We present a mathematical principle that provides a precise formulation for the types of functions a slide rule can be designed to calculate. In addition to providing the mathematical foundations for how and why a slide rule works, this principle establishes its mathematical possibilities and limits. We also present the theory of how slide rule scales are constructed.


Slide Rule Prices

Rod Lovett maintains a searchable database of eBay slide rules sales from October, 1999, to present.


Slide Rule Web Sites

The Oughtred Society Web site's Links Library has a comprehensive, up-to-date list of Web sites on slide rules and other calculating instruments.


Slide Rule Dealers


Other Slide Rule Information

Free Download: All About Slide Rules by the Oughtred Society

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What is a Slide Rule
History
How a Slide Rule Works
Learning Your Way Around a Slide Rule
Common Scales and Their Functions
Basic Calculations
Common Types of Slide Rules
Major Companies and Some of Their Common Models
Less Common Types
Advanced features
Advanced Calculations
Special Applications
Tricks and Time Savers
Cleaning and Care
Collecting
Slide Rules on the Internet

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