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Comparison Of Important Tools, On both sides of the Space race
dvandorn
post Feb 19 2006, 05:26 PM
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Here are two nearly identical images. One of these was used by Sergei Korolyev, the other by Wherner von Braun. Can you tell which is which?

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And here's a more interesting question -- how many of us here on UMSF have actually *used* a slide rule in their lives? I know I used a slide rule, even in a completely non-engineering field -- I'd use it to do basic scaling functions when doing layout on newspapers and such.

Since both Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their own personal slide rules to the Moon, people were obviously using them only 35 or so years ago. So, how many of us have ever used one?

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post Feb 19 2006, 10:07 PM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 20 2006, 04:26 AM) *
And here's a more interesting question -- how many of us here on UMSF have actually *used* a slide rule in their lives?


Surprisingly (being only 28), I have used one. One was found one in my office a few years back*, googled for instructions and then wasted a few days of my PhD trying to get the hang of it. A really fasinating bit of kit, really worth getting your hands on one if your from the 'pocket calculator age' like me.

*Stuff NEVER gets thrown out of academic offices, all sorts of historical stuff turns up. Only last week my office mate came across the manual for our departments first computer. Informing you how to start the machine - by manually coding the startup program by toggling switches! ohmy.gif

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- dvandorn   Comparison Of Important Tools   Feb 19 2006, 05:26 PM
- - helvick   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 19 2006, 05:26 PM) ...   Feb 19 2006, 05:56 PM
- - tty   I was born in 1948 and I certainly used a slide ru...   Feb 19 2006, 06:09 PM
- - CosmicRocker   My experience pretty much mirrors tty's. I st...   Feb 19 2006, 08:42 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   I can't tell the slipsticks apart, either...   Feb 19 2006, 10:00 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Feb 19 2006, 10:00 PM) ...   Feb 19 2006, 10:17 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (helvick @ Feb 19 2006, 10:17 PM) ...   Feb 19 2006, 11:34 PM
- - jamescanvin   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 20 2006, 04:26 AM) ...   Feb 19 2006, 10:07 PM
- - dvandorn   FYI -- the top one was Korolyev's, the bottom ...   Feb 19 2006, 11:43 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   While we're on the subject of lack of Cybernet...   Feb 20 2006, 01:09 AM
- - Bill Harris   HP with RPN and sliderules, what a nostalgia trip...   Feb 20 2006, 02:59 AM
- - elakdawalla   What's a slide rule? Just kidding, but in ...   Feb 20 2006, 03:20 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   SF writers prove prophetic again! Remember As...   Feb 20 2006, 03:48 AM
- - edstrick   I've still got my slide rule. Though once the...   Feb 20 2006, 06:25 AM
- - tasp   Well, I recall using a slide rule a few times. In...   Feb 20 2006, 02:56 PM
- - tty   I never actually used a key punch, but the first m...   Feb 20 2006, 08:14 PM
- - mchan   I have used slide rules and card punches briefly. ...   Feb 20 2006, 08:31 PM
- - Bob Shaw   It's not just US education that has a problem ...   Feb 20 2006, 10:26 PM


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