The protractor and the Bunsen burner. Playing the recorder in music class. Drawing arcs and circles with a compass in geometry. These tools of the education trade become part of our lives for a ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One of the first types of slide rules ...
In February 1972, the first relatively affordable and hand-held electronic calculator was made available, for scientists only, priced at $395. Hewlett Packard's HP-35 was the first handheld calculator ...
MESSRS. J. J. GRIFFIN AND SONS, LTD., of Kingsway, London, have sent examples of two slide-rules which they are introducing at a very low price—the longer one, which is 25 cm. in length, at 2s., and ...
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Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete ...
Before the smartphone, the laptop and the pocket calculator, there was a powerful mechanical computer. Our new series, Tools of the Trade, begins... The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put A Man ...