Download or read book Calculating on Slide Rule and Disk written by IJzebrand Schuitema and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author IJzebrand Schuitema owns one of the largest slide rule collections in the world. In the course of his collecting, he came upon rules that were unknown to him and that excited his curiosity. This book is a compilation of the articles he wrote about these wonderful slide rules, each one made for a specific and unique use, and about the men who designed and manufactured them. There is the slide rule that computes road curvature, one that calculates for sewerage applications, one that provides navigational information for flyers, one for brewers that computes barley malt, water, hops, and yeast and then takes into account time, temperature and pressure and there are many, many more. Ir. Schuitema was fortunate to have as his associate in this enterprise Herman van Herwijnen, who describes himself as a slide rule collector and computer freak. He has compiled a marvelous CD, designed for the PC and included with the book, featuring an enormous number of photographs (in full color and from all sides and angles) of all the rules mentioned in the book, as well as a great many additional ones. Each rule is accompanied by a description material it is made of, size, name, etc. Each picture can be enlarged several times, so that every detail is seen. The disc can be searched, browsed, its index can be used to take the reader to a particular slide rule maker or to a particular slide rule, and individual pictures can be printed or copied -- it is a treasure chest of information.

Download or read book Calculation and Computation in the Pre electronic Era written by Aristotle Tympas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical ages. This unique volume introduces the history of computing during the “first” (steam) and “second” (electricity) segments of the Industrial Revolution, revealing how this history was pivotal to the emergence of electronic computing and what many historians see as signifying a shift to a post-industrial society. It delves into critical developments before the electronic era, focusing on those of the mechanical era (from the emergence of the steam engine to that of the electric power network) and the electrical era (from the emergence of the electric power network to that of electronic computing). In so doing, it provides due attention to the demarcations between—and associated classifications of—artifacts for calculation during these respective eras. In turn, it emphasizes the history of comparisons between these artifacts. Topics and Features: motivates exposition through a firm historiographical argument of important developments explores the history of the slide rule and its use in the context of electrification examines the roles of analyzers, graphs, and a whole range of computing artifacts hitherto placed under the allegedly inferior class of analog computers shows how the analog and the digital are really inseparable, with perceptions thereof depending on either a full or a restricted view of the computing process investigates socially situated comparisons of computing history, including the effects of a political economy of computing (one that takes into account cost and ownership of computing artifacts) assesses concealment of analog-machine labor through encasement (“black-boxing”) Historians of computing, as well as those of technology and science (especially, energy), will find this well-argued and presented history of calculation and computation in the mechanical and electrical eras an indispensable resource. The work is a natural textbook companion for history of computing courses, and will also appeal to the broader readership of curious computer scientists and engineers, as well as those who generally just have a yearn to learn the contextual background to the current digital age. "In this fascinating, original work, Tympas indispensably intertwines the histories of analog and digital computing, showing them to be inseparable from the evolution of social and economic conditions. " Prof. David Mindell, MIT

Download or read book The Use of the Slide Rule written by Allan Reginald Cullimore and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Calculating on Slide Rule and Disc written by IJzebrand Schuitema and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Methods of Stress Calculation in Rotating Disks written by S. Tumarkin and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper describes nethods of computing the stresses in disks of a given profile as well as methods of choosing the disk profiles for a given stress distribution for turhines, turbo blowers, and so forth. A new method of in tegrating the differential equations of Stodola leads to a simplification of the computation for disks of hyperbolic profile.

Download or read book Slide rule Notes written by Henry Cleland Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slide Rules written by Peter M. Hopp and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hopes of "preserving these delightful devices for future generations," this collector of slide rules covers everything one could possibly want to know about this crude form of analog computer: from its invention in the 17th century to manufacturers- retailers, 1850-1998, and the Oughtred Society for collectors. Includes a glossary with biographies, patent data, component specs, dating and valuing, care, historical milestones, and illustrations

Download or read book Calculation and Slide Rule written by Thomas J. McHale and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Some Quick and Easy Methods of Calculating written by Robert Gordon Blaine and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Slide Rule Simplified written by George Washington Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manual of Classification of Subjects of Invention of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Slide Rule Applied to Commercial Calculations written by R. M. Shireby and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Calculating Companion for the Slide Rule written by James L. Rowland and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slide Rule Mathematics written by Ira Ritow and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Special Purpose Slide Rule for Computing Solid Angles written by J. R. Knight and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manual of Classification written by United States. Patent and Trademark Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of replacement pages.

Download or read book Classification Bulletin of the United States Patent Office from written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: