Education Slide Rules
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See also:
| Basic Slide Rule Instructions - Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations. |
| Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent - Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams. |
| Eric's Introduction to the Slide Rule - Slide rule resources and links. |
| History of the Slide Rule - Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information on various types of slide rules. |
| How To Make a Slide Rule (or Log-log or Semilog Graph Paper) - Fairly simple instructions. |
| How to Use a Slide Rule as a Bicycle Gear Chart - Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so. |
| Instructions in Slide Rule Use - Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format. |
| Internet Slide Rule - Internet port of history's most heavily used advanced calculation aid. |
| Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule - Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites. |
| Napier's Bones - A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case. |
| The Scales of the Slide Rule - Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales. |
| Slide Rule as a Teaching Tool - Examples of how the slide rule is a useful tool for teaching the mathematical concept of transformations. Examples and illustrations. |
| Slide Rule Scales - Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules. |
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