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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This duplex aluminum linear slide ...

Mark Arnold is currently at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) on leave of absence from the University of Wyoming. He is the author or co-author of more than a ...

A regular slide rule takes advantage of the fact that you can multiply and divide by adding logarithms. Imagine having two rulers marked in inches or centimeters — it doesn’t matter (see the adjoining ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Stanford University is hosting an exhibit on the 350 ...

SOME modern writers attribute the invention of the rectilinear slide rule to Edmund Gunter, others to William Oughtred, but most of them to Edmund Wingate. This disagreement is due mainly to lack of ...

While some (math-phobics) still may relish the simple beauty and non-threatening functionality of the abacus, there are those who have made the transition to more challenging computing gadgets—many ...

DE MORGAN, in article “Slide Rule” in the Penny Cyclopaedia, points out that though Gunter first used a logarithmic scale, the real inventor of the logarithmic slide was Oughtred. “In the year 1630 he ...

Unless you are above a certain age, the only time you may have seen a slide rule (or a slip stick, as we sometimes called them) is in the movies. You might have missed it, but slide rules show up in ...

In February 1972, the first relatively affordable and hand-held electronic calculator was made available, for scientists only, priced at $395. Hewlett Packard's HP-35 was the first handheld calculator ...