Directory of Slide Rules Resources

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How to use a slide rule. or how to build one, or both.

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• About Slide Rules

  http://www.caffnib.co.uk/slides.htm
  Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.

• Basic Slide Rule Instructions

  http://www.hpmuseum.org/srinst.htm
  Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.

• Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent

  http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/thachpat.htm
  Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.

• Eric's Introduction to the Slide Rule

  http://www.sliderule.ca/intro.htm
  Slide rule resources and links.

• History of the Slide Rule

  http://www.hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm
  Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information on various types of slide rules.

• How a Slide Rule Works

  http://vulpeculox.net/misc/sliderul.htm
  Short lesson.

• How To Make a Slide Rule (or Log-log or Semilog Graph Paper)

  http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/~fulling/m152/sliderul.html
  Fairly simple instructions.

• How to Use a Slide Rule as a Bicycle Gear Chart

  http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~arpepper/Cycling/slide_rule.html
  Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so.

• Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule

  http://solar.physics.montana.edu/kankel/math/csr.html
  Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.

• Napier's Bones

  http://www.mwbrooks.com/bones.html
  A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case.

• Slide Rule Scales

  http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/scales.html
  Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.

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