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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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MAKE LOOKS AT SLIDE RULES

Calculate This!

By Robert Luhn

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Images courtesy of Robert Luhn

In the Pre-Digital Epoch, people building bridges, launching rockets, or trying to fill an inside straight used manual calculators. It might’ve been a snazzy slide rule, or a paper wheel with dials that (when properly aligned) computed a sales commission, the proper valve fitting, or how big a hole a 20-megaton H-bomb would make.

As one observer put it, manual calculators like the slide rule and its kin “radically increased our capacity to perform complex mathematical computations. They literally enabled us to develop our modern world.” Here are six classic ...

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