When I was in High School the chemistry/physics teacher, Sister Bernadette,
had in her home room a 6-foot long K&E slide rule suspended from the
ceiling above her desk. At the beginning of each semester she used it to
teach new students how to use the slide rule. I'd love to know what
happened to it; must be a collectors item.
Charlie
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> When I was teaching lab as a grad student back in 1978, I had the
> occasion to take a slide rule with me as my calculator batteries had died.
> A student asked me to check his calculations, so I whipped it out and a few
> swoops later verified what he had done. He looked at me in amazement and
> asked me "What is that?".
>
> BTW: Did you know you can add using a slide rule?
>
> >
> >> 2. When I was a physics major at Berkeley, we used slide rules.
> >
> >I saw one of those at the Smithsonian Museum.
> >
>
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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