When I was a bright-eyed bushy-tailed young engineer, no one I knew could afford an electronic calculator and the mechanical slide rule still held sway. Thinking back to those now far-off days, a good ...
Before the smartphone, the laptop and the pocket calculator, there was a powerful mechanical computer. Our new series, Tools of the Trade, begins... The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put A Man ...
It was the only technological tool widely and continuously used for over three centuries. For math and science geeks it was a badge of honor, nestled neatly into a plastic pocket protector along with ...
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