There are also some online manuals and a complete book, teach yourself the slide rule. In addition are a few manuals i have written for my own jugglers and radix series slide rules. Slide rules manual,calculator vintage, surveying,drafting,optical tooling, slide rules,measuring tapes,instruction manual,vintage meauring. This book comes with the cardboard slide rule pictured. Round the original problem to convenient numbers and solve it in your head. Here are a few instruction manuals for aw faber faber castell slide rules that i have acquired, most came with slide rules as indicated. Dereks virtual slide rule gallery a whole bunch of simulated slide rules. Here are some of the slide rule manuals i have collected. Spheres circular slide rule archive circular slide. As graphical analog calculators, slide rules are closely related to nomograms, but the former are used for general calculations, whereas the latter are used for applicationspecific computations the slide rule is used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for functions. Feb 16, 2019 1815 peter mark roget invented the log slide rule, which included a scale displaying the logarithm of the logarithm. The slide rule, a practical manual, 18th edition 1927 by c. Controller model 200 case and manual controller model 200 case in its case.
Of course, slide rule manuals do not list thousands of formulas. Complete, brand new package includes slide rule, brown leather sheath, 40page factory instruction book, and shelf box. Although its slide rule features are limited to the unlabelled cd scales on the circular front portion, this lowtech device is commonly used by pilots for flight path calculations, wind correction, fuel consumption, etc. This is a very sophisticated duplex log log rule, made in a low cost plastic format by pickett for schools. The right end of the slide bears the form of the pickett logo that was. Abacus and slide rules history office of nih history.
Davids calculating sticks, my collection of slide rules. Illustration from complete, semiprogrammed teaching instructions for the. Includes factory english manuals for the rule and addiator, stylus for the addiator, and a zippered green, logoembossed travel. A duplex slide rule had scales on both sides, the usual case for engineering slide rules. A complete slide rule manual unknown binding january 1, 1973 by neville w young author visit amazons neville w young page. Complete, mint set includes deci lon slide rule, original box, chamoislined leather case, beltclip attachment, hardcover manual, and care booklet sold. You can guess that the extra shown on the scale might add about 0.
Get the best deals on pickett slide rule when you shop the largest online selection at. Jan 19, 2001 the typical engineers slide rule had scales 10 25 cm in length, making the slide rule about 12 overall, and 4 to 2 wide. Smyth, 1967 this instruction manual is for the 68 1400 analon slide rule. Pdf the complete slide rule handbook download full. A complete manual paperback january 1, 1967 by alfred l slater author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Faber castell 810 complete set for basf rare 12 cm 5 circular slide rule in case with manual 1970s calculating tool germany vintagemanstuff. This fiveinch eye saver yellow aluminum linear slide rule has a nylon indicator and is held together with stamped aluminum contoured posts.
Unfortunately on both counts, neither quite lives up to former hemmi standards. In particular, gary lapook spent a lot of time coaching me regarding bygrave equations and rhumb line navigation. The slide rule depicted inside the manual is dietzgens national, model 1767, and the manual was received with 1988. The duplex rule was invented by william cox in 1891. This is a powerful lightweight pocket rule, with performance equal to a much larger straight rule.
The reading of any slide rule is accurate to the second. In a separate calculation you find the order of magnitude by combining the powers of 10. The front of the base has ll1, a, d, di, and k scales, with b, st, t, s, and c scales on the slide. Apr 25, 2005 concise circular slide rules 28n manual.
Very nice rule, complete with vinyl slip case and manual. Pickett n 200 t trig pocket slide rule brown leather case 6 joslyn electronic. The nature of the examples and exercises included suggests that the book. The metal window is inserted over the slide rule to act as a place holder. There are more pedestrian ways to compute but if you have to evaluate such expressions many times youll find the shortcut eventually.
Pdf the complete slide rule handbook download full ebooks. A compact 80mm3 14 inch pocket circular slide rule, with conversion factors and formulas on rear face. Create free account to access unlimited books, fast download and ads free. The slide rule the book, written by florian cajori, is the standard work on the early history of the slide rule. Aristo studio 868 log log duplex pocket 5 slide rule complete in box cib. There is also a version as a word document which is smaller 2040 kb. They describe basic principles and then people can figure out how to use slide rules to best advantage for their particular applications. I learned slide rule basics by myself with the much shorter 3step manual for the pickett 120 trainer plastic slide rule. This online document, all about slide rules, presents what its title suggests, complete information about slide rules. Bissaker slide rule 1654 circular slide rule king pocket calculator 66 sclales thacher calculator 30 ft. This side of your computer simply consists of a rotating disk with numbers on the middle scale, which when set against similar numbers on the fixed portion outer scale, allows you to solve problems of. William cox, the mannheim polyphase and the duplex polyphaseduplex slide rules complete manual new york.
The fabercastell slide rules 283n and 6283, incorporate these scales. On a slide rule the answer you are able to read with certainty is 176. The slide rule cannot be regarded as a modern invention since the first design dates from the early part of the seventeenth century, but every year sees additions and variations made and the uptodate instrument has, as might be expected, advanced greatly beyond the earlier types. Slide rule library text and reference books international slide. Vintage instruments is a very large dealer, operated by dick rose in ohio, with thousands of slide rules for sale, plus drafting instruments. A complete course in use and operation of slide rule slide rule hasstandard a, b, c, ttwsterling student anaccurate instrumen for use in multiplication, division. This duplex aluminum linear slide rule is coated in yellow eye saver plastic and is held together with stamped aluminum contoured posts.
Manleys slide rule page among other resources on this page is a nearly complete teach yourself the slide rule manual that manley has scanned in. Angle divisions were originally in minutes, but decimal divisions gradually became predominant, in decitrig slide rules. Dietzgen instruction manual for maniphase slide rule description the citation information for this sixteenpage booklet is. Slide rules home page instructions manuals site map contents preface.
All about slide rules a 2012 oughtred society publication. This is one of concises higher end circular slide rules, made in a special run for the international slide rule discussion group at yahoo in the fall of 2002. A complete slide rule manual unknown binding january 1, 1973 by neville w young author. Spheres circular slide rule archive circular slide rules. The sphere site has some good modelspecific instructions for clea. Pdf the slide rule a practical manual download full. You are now the proud owner of a rotary slide rule. Electronic files may be scans 200 dpi of these materials or may link to or.
Unfortunately, i dont have a copy of the revised edition, but even this early work has a lot going for it. It is the most comprehensive catalogue of hemmi slide rules ever published. The slide rule, also known colloquially in the united states as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer. The slide rule, a practical manual, 17th edition 1920 by c. Fabers advanced mannheim rule, widely used in europe, and a real classic. After reading and learning so much about the wonderful world of slide rules i just had to have my. Russiachina manuals for soviet era and chinese slide rules. Additionally, the slide rule does not tell you where the decimal point is located in the answer. As graphical analog calculators, slide rules are closely related to nomograms, but the former are used for general calculations, whereas the latter are used for applicationspecific computations. Dec 14, 20 the slide rules importance to the industrial revolution, and the impact of the industrial revolution upon the slide rule, are demonstrated by the proliferation of designs. Slide rule dealers are an excellent and dependable source. From 1625 to 1800, the first 175 years after its invention, a total of 40 slide rule types, including circular and spiral designs, are recorded.
Neville w young circa 1972 in my search for instruction in the use of the slide rule i ran across this wonderful by neville w young. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This manual came with a pickett n200t and is in fairly good shape after being. There are many pages about slide rules on the web, and you can still buy brand new slide rules 40 years old but never used, and still in their factory supplied box in various places. Our original problem was 410 x 9, and we read an answer of 3.
First, the rules used are very complex, leading to visual pictures that are very busy and a little distracting. Your dietzgen slide rule instructions for care and adjustment. Download full the slide rule a practical manual book or read online anytime anywhere, available in pdf, epub and kindle. A complete slide rule manual neville w young 19 1 chapter 19 further applications of the ll scales 19.
This rule has special scales for handling dimensions, units. The e6b circular rule scales are used internationally for safe manual. We are fortunate to have several excellent dealers who are very fine folks. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. A complete slide rule manual 1973 edition open library. Download full the complete slide rule handbook book or read online anytime anywhere, available in pdf, epub and kindle. First thing youll probably notice is the inclusion of the groups logo in the center of the rule.
Mannheim slide rule 1850 faber castell 283n nestler 23r mannheim issac newton put 3 scales in parallel in 1675 to compute. The invention of logarithms in 1614 by the scottish mathematician john napier and the computation and publication of tables of logarithms made it possible to effect multiplication and division by the simpler operations of addition and subtraction. Slide rules are analog computing devices marked with linear or logarithmic scales. In the case of 283n, the w scales are actually 50cm. Of the mmany slide rules donated to isrm, by his wife, nancy, this is one he used quite often in his amatuer radio hobby. A manual for a good vintage slide rule about 100 pages. Pickett n600es log log duplex slide rule national museum. The text does not dwell on the logarithmic basis of slide rule construction. Get the best deals on aristo slide rule when you shop the largest online selection at. A cursor is fixed in the center of the window to allow for accurate readings. Faber castell 810 complete set for basf rare 12 cm 5 circular slide rule in case with manual 1970s calculating tool germany vintagemanstuff 5 out of 5 stars 15. Useful if you find my primer to be somewhat lacking. Slide rules mentioned in the new rules section are the same as those in the 15th edition with the inclusion of the davisgrinsted complex calculator.
Pilots are required to be proficient on the e6b slide rule. Additional slide rule material can be accessed using the links in the left bar under slide rule content pages. Stone, in his new mathematical dictionary, london, 1726 and 1743, says in the article. You can search online to find a manual for the pickett n600es slide rule and it will explain the use of the ln. The slide rule by chas hoare published by technical press in 1953. The number of scales on a slide rule vary depending on the number of mathematical functions the slide rule can perform. A complete slide rule manual neville w young 20 1 chapter 20 root w scales 20. Slide rules were the original personal computers hackaday.
There is no way i can give all of that detail in an instructable that has 21 steps plus an introduction. Edmund gunter devised a sector with slide rulelike scales, but you. History of the logarithmic slide rule 6 gunters scale and the slide rule often confounded in former years the invention of the slide rule was frequently but erroneously, attributed to gunter. The purpose of this particular and quite idiosyncratic slide rule page is to describe common scales used on slide rules, and the kind of mathematical expressions. A family of circular slide rules by controller calculator kg.
Comprehensive manual from the frederick post company which was written for th. Slide rule, a device consisting of graduated scales capable of relative movement, by means of. Oct 05, 2020 a complete slide rule manual by neville w. Spheres pickett slide rule company archive slide rules. The idea of using photographs to show the exact settings might seem to be a good one, but here it has suffered somewhat in implementation. You can see his other personal slide rule, a hemmi 256 radio communications, and others from his collection in the isrm galleries. The first 200 years, rabone chesterman, 17841984, a short history of rabone. The logarithmic slide rule is a compact device for rapidly performing calculations with limited accuracy. Get the best deals on pickett slide rule when you shop the largest online selection. This catalogue raisonne describes every slide rule ever made by the hemmi slide rule company of japanor at least all those i have been able to identify. We cannot guarantee that the slide rule a practical manual book is in the library. Instructions for the use of the sliderule matematica extra.
To multiply two numbers on a typical slide rule, the user set the left index start of the scale on. Basic slide rule instructions the museum of hp calculators. The slide rule side the term circular slide rule shouldnt be intimidating. Pickett all metal slide rule model n902es 10 inch simplex trig complete bundle. Slide rule library main desk archive of books, manuals. The scales ad are labeled on the lefthand side of the slide rule. Object details author cox, william description this 72page salmoncolored paperback book was received with 1981. So, youve found your grandfathers old slide rule and wonder how it works, or youre already a grandfather and. To do a calculation with a slide rule you reduce all numbers to scientific notation with 24 digits then use the slide rule to perform the basic operations. Abbreviations abbreviations used in various parts of this manual include. Click get books and find your favorite books in the online library.
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