Download or read book The Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual Third Edition written by Ted Hume and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of slide rules, covering history, usage, and collecting, with numerous links to other sources of information for readers who wish to dig deeper. Profusely illustrated with photos of a wide variety of slide rules, from common to rare.
Download or read book The Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual written by Ted Hume and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 104 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 The Slide Rule written by William Cox and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slide Rules written by Dieter von Jezierski and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in German in 1977 as the first major book on the history of the slide rule since Florian Cajori's A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule, this newly revised and translated edition of Slide Rules, A Journey Through Three Centuries, offers readers a fresh, more Continental perspective on this most fascinating of calculating instruments. The book is an important piece of historical and technological research, in which the author includes the history of the slide rule from its beginnings in the 17th century, through its gradual adoption and development worldwide during the 19th and 20th centuries, to its sudden and almost complete demise in the mid-1970s. He also covers the evolution of various slide rule components, technologies, and manufacturing processes, as well as histories of the major slide rule manufacturers and their product lines during the last 100 years. There are detailed references to original sources throughout, which the reader may use as a springboard to further study and research. Readable and very informative, this is a book that, together with those of Cajori and Peter Hopp, any slide rule collector or historian of technology will find of great interest and real benefit.
Download or read book Joint Slide Rules written by Peter M. Hopp and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, the slide rule has been a useful calculating device. In his second book, Joint Slide Rules: Sectors, 2-foot 2-fold and similar slide rules, expert Peter M. Hopp examines the joint rule, completing an important but neglected part of slide rule history. The book is a comprehensive account of joint rules and contains detailed information on over two hundred joint slide rule makers from around the world. Calculating devices that preceded the slide rule, such as sectors and timber rules, are examined, as are special joint rules that incorporate additional elements, such as callipers. Special jointed devices, such as dip rods that allow calculation, are also included. With the addition of over one hundred detailed illustrations of joint slide rules and a glossary of terms, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in joint slide rules and their history.
Download or read book When Computers Were Human written by David Alan Grier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Download or read book Manual for the Slide Rule written by Paul E. Machovina and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Slide Rule Instructions Annotated written by Michael Konshak and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions and notes from models of slide rules that are no longer produced. This is a reference work to preserve slide rules manuals. Many companies are no longer in business after the 1970's. The instruction manuals were never sold separately from the slide rules and many were lost over time. The project is to provide a composite hard copy book and digital of reprints of instructions from the most popular manufacturer's slide rule models. PostInstruction Books Contained in Volume 4:Book 1 - How to Operate the Mannheim Type Slide Rule, pre WWII, 8 pagesModels: 1441, 1444, 1446, 1447, 1452, etc.Book 2 - Instructions for the Binary Slide Rule, 1938 Pre-WWII, re-formatted booklet into 5 pages. Same as the Gilson Midget Binary circular slide rule.Book 3 - How to use your Post Slide Rule. 1967. 21 pages. Features Model 1447 Student Slide Rule., but references models 1441, 1444, 1446, 1447, 1452, etc.Book 4 - Self Paced Slide Rule Learning, based on 1447 student slide rule, 1967 edition, 170 pages Book 5 - Post 1450 Versatrig Duplex, 1968, 96 pages. Book 6 - Post 1460 Versalog Duplex, 1963, 130 pages. Book 7 - Post 1460 Versalog II Duplex, 1970, Added scales, 203 pages. For most users of slide rules, the Versalog II manual will provide instructions for most scales on every other slide rule, along with sample problems duplicated in the other books of this volume.
Download or read book The Design Warrior s Guide to FPGAs written by Clive Maxfield and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that provide a fast, low-cost way for embedded system designers to customize products and deliver new versions with upgraded features, because they can handle very complicated functions, and be reconfigured an infinite number of times. In addition to introducing the various architectural features available in the latest generation of FPGAs, The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs also covers different design tools and flows.This book covers information ranging from schematic-driven entry, through traditional HDL/RTL-based simulation and logic synthesis, all the way up to the current state-of-the-art in pure C/C++ design capture and synthesis technology. Also discussed are specialist areas such as mixed hardward/software and DSP-based design flows, along with innovative new devices such as field programmable node arrays (FPNAs). Clive "Max" Maxfield is a bestselling author and engineer with a large following in the electronic design automation (EDA)and embedded systems industry. In this comprehensive book, he covers all the issues of interest to designers working with, or contemplating a move to, FPGAs in their product designs. While other books cover fragments of FPGA technology or applications this is the first to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use for embedded systems. - First book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use in embedded designs - World-renowned best-selling author - Will help engineers get familiar and succeed with this new technology by providing much-needed advice on choosing the right FPGA for any design project
Download or read book Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing written by Herbert Bruderer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.
Download or read book Made to Break written by Giles Slade and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
Download or read book Pickett Slide Rule Instructions Annotated written by Michael Konshak and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions and notes from models of slide rules that are no longer produced. This is a reference work to preserve slide rules manuals. Many companies are no longer in business after the 1970's. The instruction manuals were never sold separately from the slide rules and many were lost over time. The project is to provide a composite hard copy book and digital of reprints of instructions from the most popular manufacturer's slide rule models.Pickett Instruction Books Contained in Volume 3Book 1 - How to Use the Deci Log Log Slide Rule, Model 2, 1947, 32 pages.Book 2 - How to Use the Ortho-Phase Duplex Slide Rule, Model 100, 1947, 32 pages.Book 3 - How to Use Trig Slide Rules, Model 903 Conversion, 1010 Trig. 1953, 51 pages.Book 4 - How to Use the Dual Base Log Log Slide Rule, Models 2-T, 3-T/ES, 4-T/ES, N-3, N-4, C-18, C-19, N600, N803. 1947. 93 pages.Book 5 - How to Use the Ln-L Scale, 1947. 16 pages.Book 6 - Supplement to Log Log Manual. How to Use the Model 803 Log Log Dual Base Slide Rule Slide Rules. 1957. 8 pages.Book 7 - How to Use Powers-of-ten Decimal-Keeper Slide Rules, Model 904. 1959. 24 pages.Book 8 - How to Use Business and Commerce Slide Rules, Model 400, 501. 1947. 32 pages.Book 9 - Elementary Simplex Math Slide Rule, Self-programmed Instructions, 1965, 51 pages.Book 10 - How to Use Basic Slide Rules, Model 115 120, etc. 1959. 24 pages.Book 11 - Spring Calculator Slide Rules, Model 1025, 1090. 1959. 7 pages.Book 12 - Fischer Valve Sizing Slide Rule, Model 1040 and other variants. 1967. 28 pages.Book 13 - Complete Instruction Manual for N-525 Stat Rule. A multi-purpose slide rule for general and statistical use. 1965. 52 pages.Book 14 - How To Use Circular Log Log Slide Rules, Model 101-C, 109, 110, 115. 65 pgs.Book 15 - Markup Circular Slide Rule, Model 103-ES, 1957. 20 pages.Book 16 - How To Use the N-16 Electronic Slide Rule, 1957. 60 pages.Errata - Random Pickett slide rule information, How to adjust your slide rule. Recommended slide rules for various professions. 9 pages.
Download or read book Elementary Slide Rule Manual written by Herman Ritow and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sourcebook for Teaching Science Grades 6 12 written by Norman Herr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sourcebook for Teaching Science is a unique, comprehensive resource designed to give middle and high school science teachers a wealth of information that will enhance any science curriculum. Filled with innovative tools, dynamic activities, and practical lesson plans that are grounded in theory, research, and national standards, the book offers both new and experienced science teachers powerful strategies and original ideas that will enhance the teaching of physics, chemistry, biology, and the earth and space sciences.
Download or read book Human Accomplishment written by Charles Murray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. "At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.' So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences—a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence. The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. Straightforwardly and undogmatically, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions. Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.
