Slide Rules Education Math

Slide Rules Education Math

Slide Rules

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

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- History of this unusual 1600s slide rule.
- Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so.
- Short lesson.
- Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.
- Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales.
- Fairly simple instructions.
- How to use a slide rule and do the underlying math.
- Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information on various types of slide rules.
- Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format.
- Illustrated tutorial.
- Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.
- Examples of how the slide rule is a useful tool for teaching the mathematical concept of transformations. Examples and illustrations.
- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.
- Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.
- Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.
- A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case.

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