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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This ten-inch duplex linear magnesium ...

In the grand scheme of things, it really wasn’t all that long ago that a slide rule was part of an engineer’s every day equipment. Long before electronic calculators came along, a couple of sticks of ...

WHENEVER a particular type of calculation is to be repeated frequently, the use of slide rules, nomograms or graphs eliminates a major part of the time required. This is frequently the case in ...

When you look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average or a bank statement or your receipt at the grocery local store, do you ever stop to think about how numbers are actually processed? (It’s OK – you won ...

SOME modern writers attribute the invention of the rectilinear slide rule to Edmund Gunter, others to William Oughtred, but most of them to Edmund Wingate. This disagreement is due mainly to lack of ...