Slide rule

Discover the fascinating world of slide rules and their historical significance. Learn about the various uses of slide rules and how they revolutionized calculations in engineering and science.
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A More Complete Slide Rule Tutorial: A member at Instructables asked me to explain how to use a slide rule for the sake of those who came along about the time electronic calculators replaced slide rules. There are already a couple of tutorials posted at Instructables on using a slide r…

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Sergey Ermakov
1630: William Oughtred (1574-1660), English mathematician and Anglican clergyman, invented the Slide Rule. After John Napier invented logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first to use two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. He also introduced the 'x' symbol for multiplication. John Napier, Old Jewelry, Jewellery, Slide Rule, Ancient Books, Multiplication And Division, Mathematician, Ruler, Inventions

1630: William Oughtred (1574-1660), English mathematician and Anglican clergyman, invented the Slide Rule. After John Napier invented logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first to use two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. He also introduced the 'x' symbol for multiplication.

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Matthew Gregg
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A More Complete Slide Rule Tutorial: A member at Instructables asked me to explain how to use a slide rule for the sake of those who came along about the time electronic calculators replaced slide rules. There are already a couple of tutorials posted at Instructables on using a slide r…

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Joe Caruana