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I have been informed by Mr Ronald Manley that the 8th International Meeting for Slide Rule and Calculating Machine Collectors will be held in England this October 2002.


Table of Content
  • 1. Personal collection and catalogues
    - Hemmi-Sun Bamboo Slide Rule Catalogue
    - Aristo Slide Rule Selector
    - CONCISE Circular Slide Rule Catalogue
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  • 2. Slide Rule For Sale Page
    - Slide Rules For Sale/Trade
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  • 3. Related List of Links -- Categorised list
    Beginner's
    - General/Introduction: How to use, read etc.
    - Some mathematical basis
    - Historical/Biographies
    Hands On
    - Making Your Own Slide Rule
    - Computer Simulations
  • 3. Related List of Links -- con't
    Talking about Slide Rules
    - Discussion/Groups
    - Demise of the Slide Rule?
    - Concerning Education
    Collecting
    - Commercial/Professional Sites/Pages
    - Collectors' Pages
    - Getting Your Own Slide Rule
    More Interesting Topics
    - Quotations/Speculations/Musings
    - Tales of Slide Rules
    Related/Specialised "Stuffs"
    - Cylindrical Slide Rules
    - Other Interesting Related "Stuffs"
    • Personal Collection:

      My collection: a list with scales is found [here]

      Some catalogues I have transcribed and now on-line:

    1. - Hemmi-Sun Bamboo Slide Rule Catalogue (pub. 1955 rev. 1957)
    2. - Aristo Slide Rule Selector (undated)
    3. - CONCISE Circular Slide Rule Ad/Catalogue (undated)
    4. - SlideRule Catalogue for the Palm using List program and corresponding CSV file
      -- only the Flying Fish Catalogue is included for now.
      Source :Information gathered and transposed from Walter Shawlee 2's Slide Rule Universe -- on line catalogues
    Slide Rule Links:

    General/Introduction -- guides and explanation of terms and usage etc.
    ----- Learn to use your slide rule with these on-line instructions:

  • Gordon P.Smith's Slide Rule Home Page -- A good place to start.
  • David G. Hicks' HP museum's Basic Slide Rule Instructions
  • System Source Computer Museum's Basic Slide Rule Instructions
  • Dave Van Domelen's A Short Slide Rule Primer
  • Nigel Bromley's About Slide Rules -- another comprehensive guide/intro
  • Chris Sangwin's Slide rules and other mathematical instruments -- downloadable documents (ps.gziped)
  • Eric Marcotte's Slide Rule Resources -- How to use/Where to buy scanned manual-- jpeg
  • Ronald Manley's The A-to-Z of Slide Rules -- Instructions in Slide Rule Use
  • Andrew Nikitin's Slide Rule Operations -- more things to do with your sliderules
  • Artis Luminis' How to use a slide rule -- simple intoduction
  • Frontier High School's Physical Science Class featuring "How To Perform Slide Rule Operations" -- other interesting scientific lessons as well!
    ----- Learn more about the scales of the sliderules:
  • Slide Rule Universe's Slide Rule Scales Page
  • Chris Osburn's Explanation of Slide Rule Scales -- a brief description
  • Peter Hopp's Known Slide Rule Scales List on Pi Eyed's Page -- a long list with very short notes -- missing
  • Jason Waskiewicz's "The Scales of the Slide Rule" -- mathematical formulation of the scales
  • Alan Morris' paper on Slide Rule Accuracy vs. Precision on Andrew Davies' SRTP

    Some mathematical basis

  • Martin Cohen's Use of the Slide Rule as a Teaching Tool
  • Duane W. Sears's Introduction to Logarithmic Algebra Overview
  • Armagh Astropark article Zooming Out -- on the logarithmic scale in relation to astrophysics
  • Peter Fox's "How a slide rule works" -- some simple mathematical relations

    Historical/Biographies

  • David G. Hicks' HP museum's slide rule page -- Explanation and history.
  • System Source Computer Museum's A History Of The Slide Rule
  • Paul E. Dunne's Lect 3: Mechanical Calculators prior to the 19th Century
    -- extracted from "Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development of Algorithms" a [summary] -- fascinating read.
  • The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's Biography of John Napier, William Oughtred, Edmund Gunter and Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim et al.
    -- includes many links, some to on-line historical publications
  • Science Museum London - Treasures: picture of earliest-known dated straight slide rule by Robert Bissaker 1654
  • Jim and Rhoda's Antiques of Science & Technology -- pictures of historical pieces.
  • The Coggeshall Slide Rule -- an unsual 1600s slide rule.
  • IRVING H. ANELLIS' description of an "Aristotelian" 17th century sliderule.
  • Brian M. O'Connell's Introduction to Computers History -- brief timeline
  • William Oughtred, A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics by Florian Cajori -- (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at Cornell)
  • Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume -- ed. by Cargill Gilston Knott (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at Cornell)
  • Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation -- ed. by Ellice Martin Horsburgh (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at Cornell)
  • Gerhard Wenzel's Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices
  • Classic Collectors World's Sliderule TimeLine

    Making Your Own Slide Rule

  • S. A. Fulling's How to make a slide rule (or log-log or semilog graph paper)
  • Charles Kankelborg's Make your own circular slide rule with postscript templates.
  • Andy Kinsman's Postscript slide rule hosted on Slide Rule Home Page
  • Chris Gilling's Slide Rules and Calculators has the above PS templates in PDF format.
  • Brian Borchers' Napier's Bones and the Genaille-Lucas Rulers -- Poscript and PDF

    Computer Simulations -- Software
    ----- Pick Your favourite Java Slide Rules:

  • Slide Rule Trading Post has its own Java Slide Rule -- a 10" Australian model
  • System Source Computer Museum's Java Slide Rule -- a 10" generic model (based on Andy Kinsman's template?)
  • Craig A. Finseth's Another Java Slide rule -- supposed 6" Pickett or Faber-Castell (Did not run for my browser)
  • HP History Archive's "What is a slide rule?" -- a 5" K&E model 4181-1 -- missing
  • David Mold's LiveJava Rule -- a rudimental (demonstration) version with 2 scales
  • John Mann's Java Applet (Circular) Slide Rule -- [requires Java 1.2]

    Note: Some Java Programs did not run on my browser and may require a more recent (updated) versions.
    ----- Other Programming Languages

  • Duane W. Sears' Interactive Slide Rule -- authorware? plug-in needed. (not-tested)
  • Slide Rule Universe's Slide Rule Software Page -- Free/Shareware (Windows)
  • Continental Electronics Corporation's E-Slide for Windows --an electronic sliderule for Broadcast Engineers (Windows) v1.4
  • Macintosh Shareware Collection Mathematics has a slide rule software for the Mac -- missing
  • Takanori Nagae's Slide Rule Page -- link to a japanese windows slide rule program [language: Japanese] (13/11) with pictures and links.
  • K.Hirayama's Slide Rule for Windows Ver1.21E [Win3.1] Freeware [Hosted on Computational Chemistry List]
  • Softslide's Sample SoftSlides for Downloading -- -- simulating slidecharts -- updated
  • Andrew Nikitin's Slide rule emulator -- (requires IE)
  • The MadeByJoey Web Site Graphical Slide Rule v2.5 [Windows] -- missing
  • Andrew Davies' Slide Rule Professor -- with snippets in C++ -- missing
  • WinSite's A Slide Rule for Windows 3.1, 3.11, Win95 - 92K
  • David A Brown's Slabacus (Slide Rule and Abacus) v2.0 -- on ZDNet [1.49MB|Win 9x/NT]
  • Steve Burton's slide.exe [Win 3.1/9x] -- two versions.

    Discussion/Groups

  • Formerly eGroup hosted, now owned by Yahoo :Slide Rule Forum -- the place to talk about slide rules on-line (moderated)
  • The Oughtred Society -- a formal collectors' organisation
  • X-Number World's Vintage Calculators & Slide Rules Forum -- more calculators than slide rules

    Demise of the Slide Rule? -- articles concerning the arrival of the HP 35

  • James Redin's "The Death of the Slide Rule" on X-Number World
  • Richard Chin's "THE SLIDE NO LONGER RULES" for The Salt Lake Tribune -- missing

    Concerning Education

  • Seville Chapman's How To Study Physics --1955 printing of a pamphlet published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Kenneth C. Green and Steven W. Gilbert's "Great Expectations: Content, Communications, Productivity, and the Role of Information Technology in Higher Education"
  • Journal of Technology Education "From Inkwells to an Electronic Learning Community"
  • The American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education at Clemson University's "Leveling the Playing Field: the Calculator Dilemma" -- Chemistry and the Slide Rule
  • Craig Watkins' HOW TO USE A SLIDE RULE -- they still teach them at MIT

    Commercial/Professional Sites/Pages -- info/resources etc.

  • Walter Shawlee 2's Slide Rule Universe -- Repositories of info/facts/pictures of different makes
  • Bill Lise's Japanese Slide Rules Page -- especially Hemmi-Sun
  • Flying Club Online's E-6B -- "The Dalton Dead reckoning Computer" with more pilot stuffs
  • Design Services' Model Aircraft Performance Calculator -- check out the on-line manual
  • Sean Barton's MoonStick -- a portable moon-phase calculator

    Collectors' Pages -- showcasing personal collection etc.

  • Andrew Davie's Slide Rule Trading Post -- Good articles and links
  • Gordon P.Smith's Slide Rule Home Page -- Intro and stuffs
  • Chris Osburn's Slide Rule Collection -- useful notes and photos
  • Chris Gilling's Slide Rules and Calculators -- several special purpose slide rule etc.
  • John Current's Slide Rule Page -- archives of photos of large personal collection
  • Dave's House of Slide Rules -- large categorised collection with photos and notes
  • Peter Owen's Collection -- extract articles, photos with notes [updated]
  • Pi Eyed Slide Rules etc.-- some useful articles from the Slide Rule Forum -- missing
  • M.C. Tiernan's Slide Rules Page --a couple of (aero)nautical slide rules stuffs
  • Todd Tolhurst's Slide Rule Collection -- notes on manufacturer
  • Tom Bullock's Slide Rules -- Some random pictures of Slide Rules.
  • Charles C. Benton's Kite Aerial Photography's Slide Rule Trade Offer -- kite aerial photographs for slide rules
  • Dave Van Domelen's Slide Rules -- short notes and photos
  • Nigel Bromley's About Slide Rules -- comprehensive guide/intro with personal collection
  • Jay Francis' aka Slide Rule Guy's Home Page
  • Jason Waskiewicz's "My Slide Rule" Page -- good article on scales
  • Dries Molen-Barneveld's Slide Rule Page -- a dutch collector
  • Marcus Brooks' Napier's Bones
  • Liam's Slide Rule and Abacus Page -- some dated info. (based in Eire)
  • Eric Marcotte's Slide Rule Page -- some interesting articles and photos etc. features "Evolution of The K&E 4053"
  • Wolf-G. Blümich's Mechanical Calculating Equipment -- bilingual [German/English]
  • Harry Teicher´s The Famous SlideRule Page -- a Faber Castell addiator
  • Ronald Manley's Slide Rule Page -- introductionary notes and some statistics of slide rule prices on eBay.
  • Cal Clifford's "A Collection of Slide Rules"
  • Pairin's Slide rules in Thailand!
  • Phil's Slide Rule Homepage -- Pickett collector: Pickett Picketts
  • Dennis Farr's Slide Rule Collection -- his personal list of collected sliderules
  • Darren Samphier's Slide Rules - friendly Ozzy collector whom I have traded with (loads of pics too)

    Note: Some of these sites have pages that are repeated and placed on the appropiate categories/headings.

    The Marketplace -- Places to Get Your Own Slide Rule [trading/buying/selling].

  • Ted Hume et al initiated SlideRule Trading Group hosted on Yahoo.
  • The most popular auction site on earth : eBay -- enter the keyword "sliderule" (any other variants) yourself.

  • Walter Shawlee 2's Slide Rule Universe -- Repositories of info/facts/pictures of different makes
  • Walter's Visitor's Meeting, Sale and Swap Listings -- a far greater list there.
  • David Crate's Modern Calculating Instruments -- Assorted sliderules for Sale
  • A. R. (Dick) Schwartzer's Slide Rule Emporium -- Picketts for Sale -- Pickett heaven!!!
  • Ted Hume, Slide Rule Trader and his The Slide Rule Shop
  • Paul Ross' Slide Rules for Sale or Trade
  • Pairin's Slide rules in Thailand!

    Quotations/Speculations/Musings -- things I can't place anywhere as yet

  • A.R.D. Pepper's How to Use a Slide Rule as a Bicycle Gear Chart
  • Dan Axtell's My theory for the "What is it?" slide rule on the Slide Rule Trading Post -- a Slide Rule "Reckoner" I reckon.
  • The Minnesota Daily reports "Pioneer in field Cray dies" -- a brief quote by the late father of Cray supercomputer
  • John H. Lienhard's Engines of Our Ingenuity No. 819: PANVENTION -- circular slide rule with a "memory register"?
  • Gerard DeFlitch's Things they don't teach anymore for the TRIBUNE-REVIEW
  • Gordon Kindlmann's photograph of himself carrying a slide rule taken by Eric Wong.

    Tales of Slide Rules

  • The National Air and Space Museum's "COMPETITORS IN THE SPACE RACE" -- features slide rules used in early American and Soviet space programs
  • The Smithsonian Magazine still has a shorter related article on the "The Space Race"
  • Lawrence J. Kamm's "ADVENTURES OF AN ENTREPRENEUR" -- inventor of DECIMAL KEEPER -- (on-line copy taken off) -- now available in-print.
  • The Invention Dimension: Invention of the Week salutes H. JOSEPH GERBER inventor of the The Gerber Variable Scale®
  • Foo Cheow Ming's "How exactly do NEW slide rules get found, long after all manufacturing has stopped?" on the Slide Rule Universe
  • Articles about Enrico Fermi and the "The First Atomic Pile" [another piece]

    Cylindrical Slide Rules

  • HP Museum's Cylindrical Slide Rules -- including the Fuller and Otis King
  • Dick Lyon's Otis King's Patent Calculator-- the most complete list of Otis King models on-line
  • Richard Van Vleck's American Artifacts features Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent
  • Andries de Man's Original Documents on the History of Calculators -- a treasure-trove of historical documents!!

    Other Interesting Related "Stuffs"
    ---- Instruments employing Logarithmic Scales

  • Chris Sangwin's Slide rules and other mathematical instruments -- fascinating articles!! an article on the sector included
  • Brian Borchers' Napier's Bones and the Genaille-Lucas Rulers -- postscript and pdf files you can download and create. Interesting!
  • Achim Behr's Extracting Square Roots by means of the Napier rods -- try out the procedure with the Napier Bones from Brain Borcher's page above.
  • Alexandros Diploudis' Undusting Napier's Bones - java Demo provided.
    ---- Abaci
  • Luis Fernandes' The Abacus
  • David Mold's Discover the Abacus
    ---- Calculating Machines
  • Greg Saville's Curta Calculating Machines -- Greg has a fine list of Curta links: no need for replication here.
  • David G. Hicks' HP museum Early Calculators
  • G.W.J.Beckers' Mechanical calculators
  • Erez Kaplan's Calculating Machines
  • Richard Van Vleck's American Artifacts
  • Clive "Max" Maxfield and Alvin Brown's Bebop BYTES Back An Unconventional Guide to Computers
    ---- Misc
  • Thomas E. Jones' Scientific and Medical Antiques Collecting Guide
  • Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum's Current Exhibitions -- loads of information just for interest.
  • J. G. Savard's article on Reihenschieber from his "A Cryptographic Compendium"

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