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I never got to use a slider ruler but I got a couple of gems from my older coworkers that were catalogue slide ruler (not sure what its called). There was one t
by syntaxing 6y ago
I never got to use a slider ruler but I got a couple of gems from my older coworkers that were catalogue slide ruler (not sure what its called). There was one that you pulled a couple sleeves and it gave you the clearance hole for the corresponding screw. It's kinda crazy how functional these manual lookup tables were and designing it must of been a form of art.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoAlso, Nomograms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram
- paleogizmo 6y agoI've been reading on Smith Charts recently. It makes me wonder how people got anything done without the ability to do something as basic as complex arithmetic easily.