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Another Forgotten Helical Scale Slide Rule: The Fischer Cylindrical Calculator | ||
Gazette Issue 24 | September 2024 | download |
The compact pairing of helical scales with a tubular or cylindrical body created some endearing high-precision slide rules. [CARBIC] [Fisher ] [Lafay] [long-scale] [Otis King] [R.H. Smith] |
Het Ei van Co(lumbus) / The Egg of Co(lumbus) | ||
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MIR No. 91 | December 2023 | download |
Bij het lezen en het artikel “Het ei van Columbus of misschien toch niet?” van Chris Hakkaart in MIR 90, ging bij mij een belletje rinkelen. When reading the article “Columbus' egg or maybe not?” by Chris Hakkaart in MIR 90 it rang a bell with me. [Atpress] [chord] [copyright] [Dutch] [Jasperse] [keyborad] [music] [slide chart] [string instrument] [TELEAC] |
A Calculated Gamble | ||
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Gazette Issue 23 | September 2023 | download |
The most endearing quality of the slide rule is its endless adaptability - from calculating catenaries to the odds of winning [advantage play] [ALRO] [betting] [calculator] [gambling] [horse racing] [Lawrence] [poker] [poly-slide] [roulette] |
Keeping in Rhythm (updated IM2021 version) | ||
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JOS Vol. 31 No. 2 | December 2022 | download |
The most endearing quality of the slide rule is its endless adaptability - from organ pipes to human hearts. [cardiac] [ cardiologist ] [cardiology] [ECG] [EKAGNOST] [EKG] [electrocardiogram] [Faber-Castell] [heartbeat] [Medical] [pulse] [QTc] [QT interval] [RR interval] [Sandera] [Sinus Rhythm] |
A Homage to Long Scales or When Size Does make a Difference! (last updated: November 2022) | ||
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Gazette Issue 22 | September 2022 | download |
Long Scale types are an alternative to just stretching out C & D scales for more accuracy [accuracy] [benchmark] [circular] [drum] [linear] [long-scale] [precision] |
Which? Slide Rule | ||
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Gazette Issue 22 | September 2022 | download |
Should you go for the “best model” or the “best buy”? [accuracy] [Aristo] [Blundell] [Consumer Organisation] [convenience] [Dargue] [durability] [Ecobra] [Faber-Castell] [Hellerman] [Hemmi] [legibility] [linear] [Nestler] [precision] [Simplon] [student] [test] [Thornton] [UNIQUE] |
When Size Matters - One metre forward, one foot back | ||
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Gazette Issue 21 | September 2021 | download |
I grew up in a pre-decimal imperial weights and measures world. However, I and many fellow “baby boomers” now find it difficult to remember the era when shopkeepers and office workers had to do everyday transactions in what for anyone outside the United States (US), Myanmar and Liberia would now consider strange and irrational imperial units. [conformature] [gauge] [glove] [hat] [Hatters] [measure] [metric] [Milliners] [shoe] |
Barbotheu | ||
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Gazette Issue 21 & MIR No. 32 (November 2002) | September 2021 | download |
Barbotheu: the unknown French slide rule (n.b. my English translation of Harry van Doren's original article in Dutch). [finger button] [MIR] [Paris] [Tavernier-Gravet] [translation] |
Keeping in Rhythm | ||
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Proceedings IM2021 | September 2021 | download |
The most endearing quality of the slide rule is its endless adaptability - from organ pipes to human hearts. [cardiac] [ cardiologist ] [ECG] [EKAGNOST] [EKG] [electrocardiogram] [Faber-Castell] [heartbeat] [Medical] [pulse] [QTc] [QT interval] [RR interval] [Sandera] [Sinus Rhythm] |
A Cheesy Tale | ||
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Gazette Issue 20 | September 2020 | download |
For 400 years the slide rule was an invaluable calculating aid. But there was another side to Oughtred’s invention. It proved highly adaptable and was used in many diverse ways …. even cheese making! [butterfat] [caseiculture] [curd] [Dutch] [Henning] [milk] [Wezep] [whey] [yield] |
A 20 / 20 Solution That Did Not Help | ||
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Gazette Issue 20 | September 2020 | download |
"When the result is easier to see but wrong!" It is apt for the UKSRC Gazette’s visionary 2020 edition to highlight a slide rule innovation to ease eye strain. [accuracy] [acuity] [interpolation] [legible] [Snellen] [Snodgrass] [UNIQUE] |
Oer Hollands/Traditional Dutch | ||
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MIR No. 81 | May 2020 | download |
Heijdeman: Nederlands Rekenliniaal Erfgoed Heijdeman: Dutch Slide Rule Heritage [Book] [Dutch] [Heydeman] [instruction] [manual] [Thys] [Mierloo] [Vaes] |
ALKU Mystery Chemical Rule | ||
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Proceedings IM2019 | September 2019 | download |
A description of a mystery wooden oversized “one-off” slide rule from the 1950s with an unusual multi-slide layout by East German maker Alfred Kuhmann (ALKU) - 12 of the 14 non-standard scales appear chemical related and somewhat similar to the later Hemmi model 405 for Portland cement. [ composition] [concrete] [DDR] [poly-slide] [ |
Once Upon A Time 25 Years Ago | ||
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Proceedings IM2019 | September 2019 | download |
The IM2019 is the 25th anniversary meeting but how did it all start? [1995] [International] [Scheveningen] [Utrecht] |
Squaring the Circle | ||
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Gazette Issue 19 | August 2019 | download |
Overlooked Nestler Models. Subconsciously I make word associations with certain slide rule makers. Rectilinear models I always associate with the German maker Nestler. So when I came across a circular Nestler it struck me as odd. [circular] [co-branding] [commissions] [Controller] [military] [Nestler] |
What is it ? | ||
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Skid Stick No. 61 | January 2019 | download |
A c1950 mystery chemical slide rule by German maker Alfred Kuhmann (ALKU). [DDR] [poly-slide] |
Fastest Slide Rule in the West! | ||
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Proceedings IM2018 | September 2018 | download |
A delicious misquote reveals overlooked innovation. The literal quote was “The Fastest Slide Rule in Whitehall” and is attributable to the British science fiction writer and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, FRAS (1917–2008). Before becoming a world-famous writer Arthur C. Clarke was a civil servant working for the UK government and the Simplon XL-10 slide rule he used to audit teachers’ pensions inspired the memorable quotation. [Bakelite] [Bilateral] [Catalin] [Dargue] [Honduras] [Simplon] [Sub-Ivory] [Uniface] |
Where To Draw The Line? | ||
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Gazette Issue 18 | September 2018 | download |
You say eyether and I say either, [Accuracy] [Awards] [Cursor] [Enrichments] [Goulding] [Hair] [Interpolation] [Oscar] [Magnify] [Magnifiers] [Newton] [Radial] [Razzie] [Refinements] [Replacements] [Runner] |
Opnieuw Oplaadbaar! / Rechargeable! | ||
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MIR No. 75 | March 2018 | download |
De hybride TR series van Faber-Castell (F-C), met de combinatie van een elektronische rekenmachine en een rekenliniaal, zijn apart. In Duitsland versleten F-C TR batterijsleuven tegen een klein vergoeding op te knappen zijn. The hybrid TR series from Faber-Castell (F-C), with the combination of an electronic calculator and a slide rule, are different. For a modest fee worn out F-C TR rechargeable battery units can be refurbished in Germany. [Charger] [Dutch] |
M comes after P | ||
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Skid Stick No. 57 | October 2017 | download |
UK maker Blundell Harling (BH) was with over 5000 models, the champion producer of specially commissioned slide rules. But not all of them were BH branded. Help in identifying such unbranded but HM-made slide rules came in 2000 when a list of P Numbers showing the serial numbers of such commissions was published. In 2017 it came to light that some unbranded models can also carry a M Number (n.b. co-authored with Peter Soole). [Blundell] [Unbranded] |
Overlooked Beauties | ||
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Proceedings IM2017 | September 2017 | download |
Slide rule collectors are always looking out for a lost gem or the big find. More than often all we ever find is another cardboard or cheap plastic slide rule with just a few logarithmic scales. But some of these simple & everyday looking “ugly ducklings” can, like in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, turn out to be amazing “swans”. This compilation (descriptions & images) features many such often overlooked beauties divided over 12 themed galleries (n.b. co-authored with some members of the German RST collectors group). [Health & Medical] [Money] [Merchants] [Food & Beverages] [Construction & Home Improvement] [Heating] [Arears & Volumes] [Calendar] [Cars] [Speed] [Photography] [All-in-One]
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Wrong Way Up ! (last updated April 2018) | ||
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Gazette Colin Barnes Memorial Issue 2016 & JOS Vol. 27 No.1 Spring 2018 | October 2016 | download |
Surprisingly right up to the 1960s “how to use a slide rule” sessions were not taught in secondary schools. In fact in most countries no course on calculating with a slide rule ever became part of their national school curriculum. [35mm] [Aristo] [blackboard] [Blundell] [carousel] [demonstration] [dia] [education] [Faber-Castell] [instruction] [multimedia] [OHP] [Pickett] [projector] [teaching] [Thornton] [training] |
The Lost Scales of Unknown Riches (last updated: January 2017) | ||
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Proceedings IM2016 & Gazette Colin Barnes Memorial Issue 2016 | September 2016 | download |
Your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them. There are always exceptions and sometimes we only see what we want to see. [British] [efficiency] [electrical] [English Electric] [Lilliput] [Obi-Wan] [PF] [Power Factor] [Riches] [Star Wars] [Thornton] |
Slide Rule Hunting, opniew / Slide Rule Hunting, again | ||
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MIR No. 71 | August 2016 | download |
Wanneer je in het buitenland op zoek voor zoiets als het lang vergeten rekenliniaal bent, kan zelfs in sommige delen van Europa een Engels vertaling of gebarentaal niet genoeg zijn. Een lijst met de inheemse spelling voor een rekenliniaal kan helpen. When hunting for something like a “long forgotten” slide rule in other continents or even in some parts of Europe, English or hand/foot sign language is often not enough. Knowing the native spelling can help. [Dutch] [foreign] [translate] [translation] |
Kunstzinnige verdeeling / Artistic divisions | ||
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MIR No. 70 | March 2016 | download |
Iedere verzamelaar van rekeninstrumenten heeft vanzelfsprekend enige affiniteit met rekenen. De klassieke en bijzondere Gulden Snee verhouding φ = 1,618 (ofwel phi) is de basis voor een speciaal in opdracht gemaakt installatie ik heb om mijn tuin te verfraaien. Every collector of calculating devices has a certain affinity with mathematics and calculating. The classic and extraordinary “Golden Ratio” (φ = 1,618) is the basis for the specially commissioned installation I have in my garden. [Dutch] [sculpture] |
Een 400 jaar oud rekenwonder / 400-year old calculating wonder (interview by Kees den Elzen) | ||
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Aschpotter no.37 | November 2015 | download |
Bij ‘vroeger’ denken we meestal eerst aan de geschiedenis van landen, van mensen, van dorpen. Maar vroeger werden ook gewone dingen heel anders gedaan dan nu het geval is. When thinking about the past we usually start with the history of countries, of people and of villages. But in such bygone days many everyday activities were done very differently than today. [ALRO] [bulbs] [forcing] [Dutch] [History] [Mannheim] [Muiderkring] [Oughtred] [radio] [Sassenheim] [SOS] |
Yellow + Blue … approximately Green | ||
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Gazette Issue 16 & MIR No. 70 (March 2016) | September 2015 | download |
Remarkably the basic design of the slide rule has lent itself to many unlikely trades and professions – usually through innovative scales but for one all the scales are just swatches of colour! [chromatic] [color] [saturated] [slider] [unsaturated] [WK-Farbschieber] [WK-Wohnen] |
Corpulent Governance | ||
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Gazette Issue 16 | September 2015 | download |
A regime of eating habits, philosophies and practices by which body fat is managed and controlled. [Anthropometry] [BMI] [calculator] [health] [obesity] [tape measure] [Waist-to-Hip] |
Graphic Log Tables: A Picture Should Have Been Worth A Million Numbers!! (last updated: Feb. 2016) | ||
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Proceedings IM2014 & MIR No. 71 (August 2016) & Gazette Issue 24 (Autumn 2024) | September 2014 | download |
Given what they replaced it feels disparaging, impolite and almost blasphemous to point out that logarithmic tables were sadly error prone and irritatingly awkward to use. Surely graphic logarithmic tables must have been the answer! Paradoxically they did not but they did have an unexpected link to certain models of slide rules. [Addiator] [Faber-Castell] [Haro ] [Kienbaum] [Koch] [Kubler] [Lacroix] [Lalanne] [Leder] [Loewe] [logs] [Maximator] [Napier] [nomogram] [Obbink] [Pressler] [Putschbach] [Ragot] [Rohrberg] [Tichy] |
Mystery Casella Desktop | ||
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Proceedings IM2014 | September 2014 | download |
A description of a mystery L.P. Casella. wooden desktop “one-off” slide rule (made with no cursor) from the 1930s with various inexplicable scales, many of which are expanded versions for extra accuracy. All the scales appear non-standard. [Harling} |
Two Tribute Show Prototypes | ||
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Proceedings IM2014 | September 2014 | download |
A description of Radiation Dosage Calculator for Contamination Over Land and Dark-Room Exposure Time Calculator show prototypes.These stainless-steel calculators, professionally made to the highest standards, were “specially commissioned” by a Dutch engineer, Dr. Ir. Ing. J.W. van Beek, in the 1970s. He made so that they could become lasting tributes to the much-loved originals he had personally used. [BRL] [Orr] [TUD] |
Mystery Thornton Desktop | ||
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Proceedings IM2014 | September 2014 | download |
A description of a mystery A.G. Thornton Ltd. desktop “one-off” slide rule from the late 1950s/early 1960s - possibly an unfinished factory prototype as there seems no good reason for either the scale layout or for it being the size it is! |
New Exhibition Opens: “The Schuitema Collection” | ||
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JOS Vol. 23 No.1 | April 2014 | download |
Fate can sometimes be cruel. Sadly, after a long illness, renowned "champion" Dutch collector and author IJzebrand Schuitema (1929-2013) died two months before an exhibition dedicated to his famous collection opened at the Arithmeum Museum in Bonn, Germany. |
Engineers in Tights!! - specialist slide rules for the textile industry (last updated: July 2014) | ||
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Proceedings IM2013 | October 2013 | download |
Despite being past the heyday of the Second Industrial Revolution “engineers in tights” made sure slide rule innovation persisted well into its twilight years. [57/74] [ARISTO] [Blundell] [denier] [Faber-Castell] [LOGA] [Nestler] [Schirdewan] [Seehase] [System] |
Graphic Logarithmic Tables: A Picture Is Worth A Million … Numbers | ||
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Collectanea de Logarithmis (DVD) | September 2013 | download |
Given what they replaced it seems disparaging, impolite and almost blasphemous to point out that logarithmic tables were sadly error prone and irritatingly awkward to use! [Kienbaum] [Koch] [Kubler] [Lacroix] [Leder] [Loewe] [logs] [Napier] [nomogram] [Obbink] [Pressler] [Putschbach] [Ragot] [Rohrberg] [Tichy] |
Pouch Clips V – the naked clip | ||
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Gazette Issue 14 | September 2013 | download |
Despite discovering yet another shocking new category, the rule clip, most clips remain rare and mostly American. [Dietzgen] [Eckel] [Faber-Castell] [Lafayette] [Pickett] [P&E] [POST] |
When size matters!! | ||
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Skid Stick No. 44 | June 2013 | download |
Collectors of slide rules are a chatty and sociable bunch – inevitably the conversation at some point turns to: “well, just how big is your collection?” [standard] [measure] [distance] [speed] |
Russian Slide Rule: size of a building! | ||
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MIR No. 60 | October 2012 | download |
How could anything ever surpass the Texas Magnum of Skip Solberg and Jay Francis? But when it comes to the largest slide rule ever built, it has a Russian challenger - Bashkir State University! [extra-long] [Ufa] |
C.C. Moler Line Loss and Voltage Drop Calculator (last updated December 2018) | ||
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Proceedings IM2012 | September 2012 | download |
A description of a special purpose DUPA wooden poly-slide duplex slide rule for calculating the line loss and voltage drop on electrical distribution lines. [Dennert] [D&P] [Esser] [K&E] [Keuffel] [nomogram] [transmission] |
W.H. Glaser’s textile conversion rule | ||
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Proceedings IM2012 | September 2012 | download |
A description of an early 20th century English “oversized” wooden desktop “one-off” slide rule (with an unusual fixed cursor) for the textile trade. [British] [extra-long] [imperial] [poly-slide] [Rankin] |
Slide Rules for Computer Programmers or .......... 53 6c 69 64 65 20 52 75 6c 65 73 20 66 6f 72 20 4 | ||
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Proceedings IM2012 | September 2012 | download |
Despite sounding weird and as challenging other visual oxymorons like “invisible ink” and “bricked-up windows” there was a time when computer programmers needed some seemingly old-fashioned calculating and conversion aids. [Abacus] [adder] [binary] [Canon] [colour] [color] [Colossus] [Comfort] [Clopper] [Coldner] [decimalisation] [digital] [EDI] [Hexadaisy] [Hexadat] [Hexadder] [hexadecimal] [HP] [IBM] [imperial] [Kubler] [octal] [Sterling] [TI] [Turku] [UNIVAC] |
George R. Stibitz’s Film Slide Rule - ADDENDUM | ||
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JOS Plus | April 2012 | download |
Georg Stibitz’s invention was surprisingly neither unique nor exclusive! This addendum lists 20 other patented band- and pape calculators and shouldd be read in conjunction with the main Stibitz article (JOS Vol. 21 No. 1). But why did so many clever inventors come up with film-based calculating machines? |
George R. Stibitz’s Film Slide Rule: a computing machine with logarithmic scales | ||
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JOS Vol. 21 No. 1 | April 2012 | download |
George R. Stibitz was special. He was a prolific inventor and won many prestigious honours and awards. He is often rightly cited as: “The father of the modern digital computer”. Sadly the military overtones associated with the Stibitz Film Slide Rule probably stopped it (and still does) getting the recognition and publicity it rightly deserved (n.b. co-authored with Dieter von Jezierski). [Army] [NDRC] |
The Unique Lawrence (last updated: November 2022) | ||
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Proceedings IM2011 and Gazette Issue 13 | September 2011 | download |
It is easy to think that slide rule innovation and creativity in the 20th century was largely the domain of commercial greats like Nestler, Faber-Castell, Keuffel & Esser, etc. But like its maligned UK “counterpart” Unique, the ubiquitous Lawrence is wrongly and unfairly just seen as an American “pile ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap” maker of slide rules. The Lawrence legacy is undoubtedly an unsurpassed portfolio of surprisingly innovative and inventive slide rules. [25¢] [Bozarth] [brand] [Engineering] [Indiana] [Lee] [OEM] [Peru] [Snyder] [Wabash] |
LINEX balls solves mystery | ||
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MIR No. 57 | September 2011 | download |
It happens a lot – well, it happens a lot to me. I see an intriguing slide rule or something a bit different and I think I am sure I have seen something like that before. This time a faint memory solved a mystery. [Graphoplex] [tensioning] |
Pouch Clips IV | ||
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Gazette Issue 12 | August 2011 | download |
Despite discovering a new category, the clip rule, pouch or rule clips remain rare and mostly American. [Baux-Arts] [concrete] [Eckel] [Faber-Castell] [Parisan] [Pickett] [P&E] |
J. H. Steward : A Family Dynasty (last updated: September 2018) | ||
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Gazette Issue 12 | August 2011 | download |
At the end of the 19th century an unsung and now sadly largely forgotten instrument maker and retailer had its heyday. [ACE] [Army] [Bisley] [Bosworth] [Goble] [Goldsmith] [Hall] [M.T.] [optics] [Norden] [NRA] [RHS] [Wimbledon] |
Uw Merk Is Uw Stille Verkoper! / Your Brand is your Silent Marketer! | ||
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MIR No. 54 | October 2010 | download |
In deze tijd van het globale bereik van Internet, zijn nationale “verkoopgrenzen” of zelfs die binnen de Benelux vaak niet meer relevant of actueel. Maar er is een tijd geweest, dat de keuze van een handelsmerk of merknaam in het Nederlands een belangrijk deel van de verkoopstrategie was. In these days of global reach through the Internet national “selling boundaries”, even within the Benelux, are often irrelevant or out-of-date. But there was a time when the choice of a trademark or brand name was a major part of any sales strategy. [Dutch] [brand] [MERK-o-GRAAF] |
MAXI Desktop Slide Rule | ||
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Proceedings IM2010 | September 2010 | download |
A description of a Nestler 100cm desktop model 24b slide rule (n.b. description includes generic production stats, etc for desktop and demonstration slide rules). [extra-long] |
Desktop Poly-Silde Rule for Steel Bars & Sections (last updated: July 2013) | ||
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Proceedings IM2010 | September 2010 | download |
A description of a large “one-off” slide rule designed for the imperial-based calculations prevalent in the steel trade. [Blundell] [poly-slide] |
Slide Rules for Basic Tractor Calculations (last updated: July 2013) | ||
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Proceedings IM2010 | September 2010 | download |
A description of a “one-off” specialist agricultural slide rule/chart to calculate the pulling power of a tractor. [agricultural] [engine] [husbandry] [Hyatt] |
What a load of Twaddell (last updated: July 2015) | ||
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Gazette Issue 11 | August 2010 | download |
For most, twaddell is an outdated expression to describe some written or spoken gibberish but even if it sounds too ridiculous for words, it is also the name of a special scale for measuring the acidity or sweetness of liquids. [alcohol] [British] [density] [hydromter] [Lovi] [Macintosh] [pottery] [SG] [slip] [strength] [tanning] [Wilson] |
Undaunted and Still As Rare As A ..... Pouch Clip ! | ||
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Gazette Issue 11 | August 2010 | download |
Why yet another update? One of Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) more famous quotes is: “... everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” It seems my 15 minutes of fame may come from pouch clips! [ARISTO] [DIETZGEN] [ECOBRA] [Faber-Castell] |
The Mystery of the Disappearing Bakelite (last updated: October 2016) | ||
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JOS Vol. 19 No. 1 | April 2010 | download |
Surely a wooden slide rule must be more tactile than one made of plastic? If they could talk, a fine boxwood slide rule with a rich patina must have “lived” more and have more stories to tell than any plastic contemporary. The one exception to the rule should have been an all-Bakelite slide rule but after showing great promise as a raw material the Bakelite process turned out to be fatally flawed. [angle] [Baekeland] [Blundell] [brand] [BRL] [enamalled] Hammelburger] [Holophane] [illumination] [tensioning] |
Reckon on it! A very British trait (last updated: May 2021) | ||
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Proceedings IM2009 | September 2009 | download |
As soon as currencies were established, bartering fell out of fashion and multiplication skills were needed to succeed in business. However, for over a century the calculating aid of choice for trade and commerce was the Ready Reckoner and not the slide rule. [Addiator] [bareme] [Blundell] [deciimalisation] [Faber-Castell] [Fenning] [Flash] [Gall] [HABS] [hybrids] [imperial] [Inglis] [Metric] [Nestler] [Robson] [Reckoner] [tables] [Unique] |
Croquet anyone ??? | ||
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Gazette Issue 10 | August 2009 | download |
I have often followed a promising URL only to end up down a “blind alley”. But you can also stumble upon little gems – like the Croquet Circular Slide Rule. [handicap] [Nels] [Plummer] [step-calculator] [unisex] [Wimbledon] |
Mind the Edge (last updated: August 2013) | ||
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Skid Stick No. 32 | June 2009 | download |
A slide rule can stay on my desk for weeks. Mostly it just needs cataloguing or filing away but on occasions it is because something about it is … well “odd”. This time my curiosity was prickled by an uncommon pre-1930 double bevelled-edged Faber-Castell model 361 slide rule from their 3xx series. |
Slide Rule for Colour Mixing/Sampling? | ||
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Proceedings IM2008 | September 2008 | download |
A description of a mystery “one-off” slide rule with bands of colour rather than scales. Possibly some kind of colour mixing aid. [color] [poly-slide] [sampling] |
Slide Rule for Signal/Power Loss | ||
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Proceedings IM2008 | September 2008 | download |
A description of an unusually designed “one-off” slide rule of Dutch (PTT) origin. Originally thought to be for calculating the combined signal loss for a given number of telephone subscribers but at the IM2014 in Delft its true provenance of dimensioning for a Dutch cable radio (“Draadomroep”) system was presented. This subscriber based system operated from 1930s to the 1970s. [CWP] [transmission] |
Calculating for Profit | ||
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Proceedings IM2008 | September 2008 | download |
Instead of just calculating the profit, a specialist slide rule for heating oil developed by Shell (SNV) was the reason for the profit and the greatly increased Shell's market share! [ARISTO] [boilers] [BP] [central-heating] [CO] [efficiency] [Faber-Castell] [Nestler] [temperature] [soot] [Unique] |
Never Mind The Quality ….. Feel The Width | ||
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Gazette Issue 9 | August 2008 | download |
The setting of a bespoke tailor’s workshop which was developed into a late 1960’s television comedy series could so easily have contained the two intriguing Tailor’s Squares which are the basis for this article (n.b. co-authored with Jenny Hutchinson). [cutter] [Mahon] [Rabone] [ready-to-wear] [Preston] [Savile] [Vincent] [Williamson] |
REED Riddle Solved! | ||
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JOS Vol. 17 No. 1 | April 2008 | download |
Slide rules from the Southern Hemisphere are mostly unknown, scarce and one in particular, shrouded in mystery. [Australia] [AWA] [D/L] [electronic] [Faber-Castell] [Home] [Nagaoka] [Service] [Sydney] |
Een 400 jaar oud rekenwonder en Shell / A 400-year old calculating wonder and Shell | ||
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VOEKS nieuws (magazine for retired personel of the Royal Dutch Shell) | September 2007 | download |
Het spreekwoord luidt: ”Elke zot heeft zijn marmot” of iedereen heeft wel een hobby. Voor velen is het ideaal wanneer je van je hobby je beroep kunt maken. The saying goes, "Everybody needs an interest" or everyone has a hobby. For many it is ideal when you can turn your hobby into your profession. [Dutch] [Gunter] [Mannheim] [Napier] [Oughtred] |
Slide Rule for Imperial Units | ||
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Proceedings IM2007 | September 2007 | download |
A description of a “one-off” mystery desktop slide rule with logarithmic scales for imperial units. [British] [timber] |
2-set Slide Rule for Reinforced Concrete & Reinforced Concrete Beams - “Michaelis Sectors” | ||
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Proceedings IM2007 | September 2007 | download |
A pair of “one-off” specialist slide rules for calculating the desired mix for reinforced concrete. |
2-set Slide Rule for the Oil Industry | ||
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Proceedings IM2007 | September 2007 | download |
A pair of “one-off” slide rules for oil industry related calculations by Gasiorowski. [BP] [chemical] [nomogram] |
Still As Rare As A ..... Pouch Clip! | ||
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Gazette Issue 8 | August 2007 | download |
Despite finding a few new examples, pouch clips remain rare and mostly American. [brand] [Eckel] [Escher] Keuffel] [K&E] [Pickett] [P&E] [POST] [UTO] |
Rekenliniaal Wint Marktaandeel / Slide Rule Wins Market Share | ||
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MIR No. 44 | April 2007 | download |
In plaats van slechts de winst uit te rekenen, een specialistische rekenliniaal ontwikkeld door Shell (SNV) voor olie gestookte C.V. ketels was de reden voor de winst en een aanzienlijke toename van Shell’s marktaandeel! Instead of just calculating the profit, a specialist slide rule for heating oil developed by Shell (SNV) was the reason for the profit and the greatly increased Shell’s market share! [boilers] [central-heating] [CO] [Dutch] [efficiency] [Faber-Castell] [temperature] [soot] N.B. prequel to extended version published later in IM2008 Proceedings |
Confusing – it gets better! | ||
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Skid Stick No. 25 | February 2007 | download |
Unlike Anthony Manville (UKSRC: SS no. 24), I cannot play an instrument. However, I like to "jazz up" and keep my collection interesting by adding related colourful attributes - like a slide rule vinyl LP. [acoustic] [Johnson] [music] [Parlophone] [Winding] |
Slide Rules Are (Still) … Music To My Ears! | ||
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Proceedings IM2006 | September 2006 | download |
Expanded and extended version of the the original 2005 publication but now showing how many aspects related to music are linked to mathematics, logarithms and slide rules. [acoustic] [Blundell] [carillon] [Faber-Castell] [Fenning] [Fritsen][harpsichord] [harmonics] [IWA] [Lawrence] [Lloyd] [nomogram] [Petit] [piano] [pipes] [organ] [Rensch] [Taylor] [transposer] |
Rare As A .... Pouch Clip! | ||
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Gazette Issue 7 | August 2006 | download |
Finding a rare “lost gem” in a flea market gives an adrenalin rush that modern on-line auctions can never match. But what makes a slide rule rare is not straightforward as “rare” can turn out to be a simple pouch clip. [ARISTO] [brand] [DIETZGEN] [[Eckel] [Escher] [Faber-Castell] [Keuffel] [K&E] [Leningrad] [Pickett] [P&E] [POST] [RICOH] [SIC] |
Een 400 jaar oud rekenwonder / 400-year old calculating wonder (last updated: September 2011) | ||
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Private | June 2006 | download |
Voor de hedendaagse scholieren en studenten is het nauwelijks te geloven dat tot omstreeks 1970 een 17de eeuwse uitvinding van een Engelse dominee het belangrijkste rekenkundige instrument was! For today’s schoolchildren and students it is hard to believe that until about 1970 a 17th century invention by an English clergyman was the most important calculating device! [Dutch] [Gunter] [Mannheim] [Napier] [Oughtred] |
Slide Rules Are …… Music To My Ears! (updated IM2005 vesrion) | ||
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JOS Vol. 15 No. 1 | April 2006 | download |
For centuries the slide rule proved an invaluable calculating aid. But there was another side to Oughtred’s invention. It proved highly adaptable and was used in many diverse ways – even for music! [acoustic] [Blundell] [carillon] [Faber-Castell] [Fenning] [Fritsen] [harpsichord] [harmonics] [IWA] [Lawrence] [Lloyd] [nomogram] [Petit] [piano] [pipes] [organ] [Rensch] [Taylor] [transposer] |
Hoe is het met jouw nauwkeurigheid? / How is your accuracy? (last updated: October 2012) | ||
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MIR No. 36 | June 2004 | download |
Peter Soole’s eenvoudige manier om erachter te komen hoe de productie toleranties voor de juistheid zijn gesteld. Peter Soole’s simple way to test any manufacture’s tolerances for accuracy. [Dutch] [exactness] [precision] |
The Saint Emilion or the Faber-Castell ?? | ||
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Skid Stick No. 15 | November 2003 | download |
I suspect, like many collectors, my family sees my passion for collecting slide rules as an eccentric and harmless hobby but storing away all the new additions can be a challenge? |
A Rose by any other Name (last updated: August 2015) | ||
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Skid Stick No. 1 | January 1999 | download |
When hunting for something like a “long forgotten” slide rule in other continents or even in some parts of Europe, English or hand/foot sign language is often not enough (n.b. original compilation by KRING member Jaap Dekker). [foreign] [translate] [translation] |