How to use a Slide Rule

In my show 1664, “Life and Times of a Geek part 1”, I spoke about using a slide rule as a schoolboy. As a consequence, I was asked if I would do a show on slide rules, and this is it (after a rather long delay).

Long notes

I have written out a moderately long set of notes for this episode and these are available here http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2166/full_shownotes.html.

Links

HPR show “Life and Times of a Geek part 1”: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1664

Wikipedia article on the slide rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

International Slide Rule Museum: http://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm

Wikipedia article on the Logarithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm

Wikipedia article on the Mathematical table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_table

wikiHow article on how to use a Logarithm Table: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Logarithmic-Tables

Wikipedia article on John Napier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier

Wikipedia article on Merchiston Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchiston_Tower

Wikipedia article on Edinburgh Napier University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Napier_University

The Faber Castell 1/60/360:

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