Pocket-Watch Slide Rules
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Pocket-Watch Slide Rules

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eBook - ePub

Pocket-Watch Slide Rules

About this book

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. The Book Includes: -Descriptions of over 150 pocket-watch slide rules and variants -Full-color illustrations, detailed descriptions, and dating information -Approximately 80 makers and retailers from the UK, Europe, and the USA -Descriptions of special scales used -Coverage of seminal patents -A glossary of terms -A comprehensive bibliography

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Information

Publisher
Astragal Press
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781493054251

Table of contents

  1. Pocket-Watch Slide Rules
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Historical Review
  6. Patents
  7. Pre-Boucher Calculating Rules
  8. Pocket-Watch Slide Rule Patents Post Boucher
  9. Other Pocket-Watch Calculators
  10. Pocket-Watch Slide Rules of the World
  11. The Boucher Calculator
  12. Calculigraphe
  13. Other Retailers of ‘Standard’ Calculigraphes
  14. Meyrat & Perdrizet Pocket-Watch Calculators
  15. Types of Calculator
  16. Lord’s Pocket-Watch Calculator
  17. Keuffel and Esser (K&E) Pocket-Watch Calculators
  18. ‘Scientific Publishing’ Pocket-Watch Calculators
  19. Fowler’s Pocket-Watch Calculators
  20. Fowler as Manufacturer
  21. Halden’s Calculex
  22. Gebr. Wichmann’s Pocket-Watch Calculators
  23. Molter Pocket-Watch Calculators
  24. Schacht und Westerich’s Pocket-Watch Calculators
  25. Russian Pocket-Watch Calculators
  26. Other Pocket-Watch Calculators
  27. Unattributable Pocket-Watch Calculators
  28. Undiscovered Pocket-Watch Calculators
  29. Watch Slide Rules
  30. Pocket Cash Registers
  31. Pocket-Watch Exposure Meters
  32. Watch Pocket Calculators
  33. Glossary
  34. Notes on Makers of Pocket-Watch Rules
  35. Makers & Retailers of Pocket-Watch Rules - Alphabetical
  36. Appendix 1 – Calculating with Pocket-Watch Type Slide Rules
  37. Appendix 2 – Identifying Pocket-Watch Slide Rule Makers
  38. Bibliography
  39. Late Additions