Following the Rules — A Slide Rule Collection
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Vignettes – 26 short articles and stories about slide rules, calculations, and collecting: |
| Vignette Title | Last Update |
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| Dietzgen Rosenthal Nestler Prototype | 2023 May 29 |
| Slide Rules for the Sikes Hydrometer | 2023 Apr 22 |
| Gauging and Excise Tax Slide Rules | 2023 Apr 08 |
| America’s Earliest Slide Rule | 2023 Mar 10 |
| Spring Calcs Eternal | 2022 Dec 23 |
| Out of Proportions | 2022 Dec 10 |
| Vector/Hyperbolic Calculations | 2022 Jun 20 |
| Stadia Rules | 2022 Jan 05 |
| Helical Slide Rules | 2021 Dec 12 |
| The Early American Favorite | 2021 Dec 05 |
| Power Rules | 2021 Oct 25 |
| Lt. Shaw’s 4097D | 2021 Oct 03 |
| Rule Change 4092-3 | 2021 Oct 02 |
| K+E Beginner’s Rules | 2021 Aug 10 |
| An Early Home-Made Spring Calculation Slide Rule | 2021 Jul 01 |
| A K+E Rule of Mystery | 2021 Jun 20 |
| British Thornton Special Scales | 2021 May 15 |
| Getting to the Root | 2021 May 01 |
| The Long and Short of It | 2021 Mar 01 |
| Hemmi 153 Scales | 2021 Feb 08 |
| A Boykin Discovery | 2021 Feb 06 |
| Fermi’s Golden (Slide) Rule | 2021 Feb 05 |
| Rules of Engravement | 2021 Feb 04 |
| The Original 4083 | 2021 Feb 03 |
| Rules to the Moon | 2021 Feb 02 |
| A Favorite Rule | 2021 Feb 01 |
| New to slide rules? – What is a slide rule? What is a logarithm? How do you use a slide rule? What do all the scales mean? – Let’s get started ! | Returning to the site? New Rules! |  |
| Collection Photos – a chronological look at the slide rule collection |  |
Special Groupings – subgroups, such as oldest, youngest, most scales, specialty slide rules, … |
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Rule Makers – The collection, organized by manufacturers |  |
| A Searchable Table of the entire collection | A Data Sheet for each rule |
| A Review of the Logarithm | Slide Rule Basics | Slide Rule Scales | References |
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-Mike Syphers
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| The Oughtred Society | 29 May 2023 | International Slide Rule Museum |