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| Author | : Peter M. Hopp |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 9781931626316 |
This book is about one of the most attractive and tactile forms of slide rules, the pocket-watch slide rule. Although pocket-watch slide rules were not the most accurate nor easiest to use, these delightful devices were featured in makers catalogues from all parts of the world for the last century of the slide rule s life. Pocket-watch slide rules are an exquisite example of the slide rule makers art and are perhaps the most collectible type of slide rules. The Book Includes: -Descriptions of over 150 pocket-watch slide rules and variants -Full-color illustrations, detailed descriptions, and dating information -Approximately 80 makers and retailers from the UK, Europe, and the USA -Descriptions of special scales used -Coverage of seminal patents -A glossary of terms -A comprehensive bibliography
| Author | : Michael Konshak |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2021-05-30 |
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Reprints of slide rule instructions, for the use of collectors, educators and students. All ephemera is currently archived in the International Slide Rule Museum Library. Instruction manuals, for the most part, are no longer available, Slide rule production ended in the mid 1970's and instruction manuals have deteriorated and are rapidly disappearing over time. The slide rule models themselves , now considered vintage math instruments, are still in abundance, and in the hands of private collections, museums, and many family homes. These volumes, organized by manufacturers, provide instructions for the most popular models, as well as some special designs. The scans from the faded and wrinkled manuals, have been "restored" digitally in order improve their clarity to provide decent black printing on white pages. All "noise", speckles, staple marks, etc., have been cleaned off the original scans, to improve the reader's experience. Where required, as in this volume, permissions have been obtained from manufacturers that are still in existence. Pocket-Watch Instruction Books in Volume 14 Book 1 - Instructions summarised for the use of the Calculigraphe H.F. (a translation from the French "Pedos" instruction sheet). Book 2 - Instructions for the use of the Employment of the Calculating Circle. Calculigraphe H.F. Boucher's System. Book 3 - Fowler's "Universal" Calculator Instructions with Supplementary Chapters on Logarithmic Calculation, and Circular Calculators. Book 4 - Fowler's Long-Scale Calculator for Engineers, Draughtsmen and Science Students. (Expanded from a 2 sheet Instructions leaflet). Book 5 - The Fowler "Junior" Calculator and Circular Slide Rule (1946). Book 6 - Fowler "Magnum" Long-Scale Calculator. Ideal Instrument for Office Use or for Weak Eyesight. and Circular Slide Rule (1940). Book 7- Fowler "Jubilee Magnum" Extra Long-Scale Calculator. 1898-1948 Anniversary Edition (1948). Book 8 - Fowler Patent Calculator Type H and R Circular Calculator. Excerpts from Fowler's Mechanical Engineers Pocket Book. (1922). Book 9 - Fowler's Architects', Builders' and Contractors' Handbook. Fowler's model "Twelve-Ten" Calculator. (c1944). Book 10 - The Mackay Paper and Board Calculator. Made by Fowler's. Book 11 - The Fowler Nautical Calculator Instructions. Designed to be used with the G.H.A. Almanac. Book 12 - Fowler's Textile Calculator for Manufacturers, Managers, Salesmen, Shippers. And Merchants engaged in the Weaving Industry. Book 13 - Instructions for the use of Fowler's Vest Pocket Calculator. Book 14 - Fowler's Patent Button-Back Calculator (Single edge knob). Excerpts from 1913 "Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book." Scientific Publishing Co. Book 15 - Halden Calculex Revised Rules, Tables and Formulae for Patent Circular Slide Rule. Book 16 - Russian (Soviet era) KL-1 Pocket Watch (translated). Book 17- "The Mechanical Engineer" Pocket Calculator - Invaluable to Engineers, Draughtsmen, Students, and all who have Calculations to make. Scientific Publishing Co. Two documents comprising a 4 page short form instructions and a 20 page excerpt from Chapter 1 of the text "The Watch Calculator and the Slide Rule." Book 18 - Directions for the Sperry Calculator, Keuffel & Esser model No. 4017. Includes page from a K&E catalog.(Note: Very poor quality).
| Author | : Peter M. Hopp |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 1999-05-01 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1493054430 |
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
| Author | : Herbert Bruderer |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 2072 |
| Release | : 2021-01-04 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3030409740 |
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.
| Author | : William Cox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Slide-rule |
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| Author | : Peter M. Hopp |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
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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. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : D. Petri-Palmedo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Slide-rule |
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| Author | : Aristotle Tympas |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2018-01-12 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1848827423 |
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
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| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 1909* |
| Genre | : Pocket calculators |
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| Author | : Allan Reginald Cullimore |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1915 |
| Genre | : Slide-rule |
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