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Old 05-15-2024, 07:49 PM
 
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Bought one once just for a laugh and gave up after a few days, thank god for calculators.
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Old Today, 07:48 AM
 
Location: The Driftless Area, WI
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Here is a better picture of my laboratory balance. It was made by F. Sartorius in Göttingen, Germany, probably around 1910. I bought it about 40 years ago.

It was made by F. Sartorius in Göttingen, Germany, probably around 1910.
Ironic that you display the slide rule with the quantitative scale....Quant Chem was the one class where the slide rule, accurate only to three places, did you no good.

You could always tell the engineering & architecture students walking around campus with the slide rules hanging from their belts, obviously proud with a "my slide rule's bigger than yours" mentality.
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Old Today, 01:43 PM
 
Location: Baker City, Oregon
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Dr. Strangelove used a circular slide rule:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZct...hannel=DavidRF
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