Beautifully written!E Dean Butler

The human perspective is one of my big interests! Coming from socialsciences, this should be no wonder:-)I see several lines within this perspective, in random order:Slide rules needed to be ...

Hi Eamonn,Yes, Bill's paper is a magnificent read for people interested in K&E or slide rules or both.Another David and Goliath story although here Goliath won!I was thinking of a ...

Thanks Jerry,   For those that are interested I have uploaded a PDF of the Easy Slide Rule paper in to the files section. It remains one of the most interesting rules ...

Hi Bob, That goes back a bit....  IM2010!Best Wishes, Jerry.

Hi Jerry, As you may recall I wrote a paper on the “Easy slide rule” for one of the IM meetings in which you subsequently unraveled the mysterious “Points” scale devised ...

Curt Herzstark's autobiography (written in German, English translation available from the OS) I think ticks some of the boxes. I know it's not exactly about SRs, but close enough perhaps.Regards, ...

There has been debate over the invention of the slide rule for centuries.Evidence that Wm. Oughtred was the inventor comes from the dedication Wm. Forster wrote for "The Circles of ...

Andreas,I appreciate the work you have done searching through the original documents. We both seem to have that need. I have copies of most of the sources and reread them ...

Indeed, it is a sliding Gunter - I had the terminology slightly wrong.  There are Hi-res scans of the front and back in the Files section, in a folder called ...

Do you have just the slide, or do you have the accompanying rule? Does the rule carry a maker’s name?Maybe you have what is termed a “sliding Gunter.” Sliding Gunters ...

It's a littloff-topic, but I have a Gunter slide that has come down in my family from the late 18th century. Relevant in this context is that the rule originally ...

I really enjoy knowing the history of a few slide rules I have that were labeled with such a distinctive name, on the rule or the case or both, that ...

Hi Tom,Am 14.06.2021 um 10:49 schrieb Tom and Lu Wetmore via groups.io:Forster's "The Circles of Proportion and Horizontal Instrument, BothInvented and the uses of both written in Latin by Mr. ...

Hi Bob,Thanks for the pointer to your LN Scale presentation. I read it and found it to be very comprehensive and well written.I especially appreciated the details regarding the gauge ...

I am sure Rod Lovett will publish stories such as the interesting N3 story in Skid Stick.Many of us enjoy reading these stories!E Dean Butler

Am 15.06.2021 um 20:06 schrieb Eamonn:While the paper gets a bit technical in some places, I think theauthor did a marvelous job of presenting the human side of the storybehind ...

The Bill Robinson paper on Mendell Weinbach and the development of the 4093/4083 slide rules is the best example of a human interest slide rule story that I am aware ...

I agree with the sentiment that "Sometimes you find a special slide rule and after studying its use and construction you discover that the person behind the object is much ...

Rod makes a very interesting observation.Personally, I very much enjoy the human element connected with old slide rules — the stories about Bate, Watt, etc.But there is precious little such ...