8 Vignettes

This series of short vignettes includes stories on the use of certain slide rules and scales, on certain sub-groupings of the Collection’s contents, and on the adventure of collecting. The vignettes in this chapter are organized with new slide rule enthusiasts in mind and, when read sequentially, are not necessarily presented in the order in which they were written. A chronological list can be found on the site’s main page. If you haven’t visited the site for a while, here are the most recent and updated entries:

Latest Vignettes:

Thacher’s Calculating Instrument,   Following the Balloons,   Chicago Rules,   K+E Mystery Rules Update.

Slide Rule Vignettes
1	A Favorite Rule	2	Rules to the Moon	3	The Original 4083
4	K+E Beginner’s Rules	5	America’s Earliest Slide Rule	6	The Early American Favorite
7	Chicago Rules	8	Rules of Engravement	9	Out of Proportions
10	Power Rules	11	Fermi’s Golden (Slide) Rule	12	Rule Change 4092-3
13	The Long and Short of It	14	An Early Home-Made Spring Calculation Slide Rule	15	Spring Calcs Eternal
16	A K+E Rule of Mystery	17	Lt. Shaw’s 4097D	18	K+E Mystery Rules Update
19	Carpenters vs. Engineers	20	Gauging and Excise Tax Slide Rules	21	Slide Rules for the Sikes Hydrometer
22	Stadia Rules	23	Following the Balloons	24	Getting to the Root
25	A Boykin Discovery	26	Dietzgen Rosenthal Nestler Prototype	27	Helical Slide Rules
28	British Thornton Special Scales	29	Vector/Hyperbolic Calculations	30	Hemmi 153 Scales
31	Thacher’s Calculating Instrument

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