Pocket-watch slide rules / Peter M. Hopp.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Place of publication not idenified] : Astragal Press, 2011Description: 172 pagesContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781931626316
  • 1931626316
Subject(s): Summary: "This book is about one of the most attractive and tactile forms of slide rules, the pocket-watch slide rule. Although pocket-watch slide rules were not the most accurate nor easiest to use, these delightful devices were featured in makers catalogues from all parts of the world for the last century of the slide rule s life. Pocket-watch slide rules are an exquisite example of the slide rule makers art and are perhaps the most collectible type of slide rules." -- Description from Amazon.com.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QA73 .H67 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000046868

"This book is about one of the most attractive and tactile forms of slide rules, the pocket-watch slide rule. Although pocket-watch slide rules were not the most accurate nor easiest to use, these delightful devices were featured in makers catalogues from all parts of the world for the last century of the slide rule s life. Pocket-watch slide rules are an exquisite example of the slide rule makers art and are perhaps the most collectible type of slide rules." -- Description from Amazon.com.

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Circular slide rules in pocketwatch cases & watches incoroprating a slide rule calculator on their dial Only scholarly monograph (richly illustrated discussing this kind of scientific instrument: Circular slide rules in pocketwatch cases& watches incorprating a slide rule calculator on their dial

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