Thread: Slide Rules Anyone??

I learned how to use a slide-rule in 11th grade. Got to start using calculators in my senior year. I still have one left - it was my Dad's from when he was studying engineering when he was in the Marine Corps in WWII. It looks to be bamboo with white plastic venier and glass cursor. The cursor has a crack in it unfortunately. Made by J. Sun if I recall correctly and had some Japanese on it. I also have the matching triangular engineers ruler. I'd never part with them though; I'm too sentimental and nostalgic, just like I still shave with my grandfather's str8.

I think slide-rules are cool, just like I like straight razors and 18th century woodworking tools and fountain pens and black powder rifles and ...

Originally Posted by RichZ

Tony,

I had a slide rule tie clip as a kid. I wonder where it is??

I'm guessing wearing that included a good beating by the class bully?

RT

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

I'm guessing wearing that included a good beating by the class bully?

RT

When I was an engineering student, some of them walked around with slide rules on their belts, kind of like a cell phone. I think that deserves some sort of bully action.

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

I'm guessing wearing that included a good beating by the class bully?

RT

Didn't wear it for that reason

Originally Posted by RichZ

Didn't wear it for that reason

You're cool!

RT

Not to give away my age, but I saw a slide rule in a movie once lol....

Not that it really matters I have this fancy calculator now and I dont know how to use half the buttons (and thats being generous!)

I used a K&E all through engineering school,(6 years),I still have it and 4 or 5 others I picked up before they went away

Tony,

I will see what I can dig up; my father was a mechanical engineer and his father a engineering professor, I think I have a drawer full of slide rules somewhere.

Dave

Originally Posted by Tobico4

Tony,

I will see what I can dig up; my father was a mechanical engineer and his father a engineering professor, I think I have a drawer full of slide rules somewhere.

Dave

Dave,
I'll be your new best friend!!! Seriously though, I am always looking for examples I don't have and will purchase or trade strops, etc...for rules.

Thanks,
Tony

After reading all the posts about slide rules, I dug around in the garage and found one of my old slide rules. Its not so much that I can't remeber how to use it, the real problem is I can't read the numbers anymore (Too small! )