Links to other Websites
on Historical Calculating Instruments
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oughtred.org:
The website of the American Oughtred Society.
Clark McCoy & Richard Davis
- uksrc.org.uk: The website of the English UKSRC group. Rod Lovett
- rechenschieber.org: The website van de German RST group. Hubert Weikert
- groups.io/g/sliderule: Discussion group for slide rules.
- sliderules.info: Very popular website of an English collector with extensive and varied information, e.g. statistics of eBay prices realised until 2005 Ron Manley
- sliderules.lovett.com: Website of English collector of slide rules, with beautiful pictures and ex cellent search facilities in all Journals of the Oughtred Society and UKSRC Skid Sticks. Also the ISRG discussion posting can be searched over more than the four past years. Rod Lovett
- sliderulemuseum.com: International Slide Rule Museum: collection of some 1000 slide rules, is hosting other collectors Tom Dilatush, George Keane, Hubert van Dongen (NL), Adam Coleman, Tony Miller Michael Konshak
- rechnerlexikon.de: Wikipedia-like catalogue, mainly mechanical calculators, log tables, planimeters (main language German, partly translated to English) Barbara Haeberlin
- bluemich.net/rechner: Mechanische Rechenhilfsmittel (German) Wolf-G. Blümich
Links to websites of KRING-members
- mechanicalculator.com: A collection of more than a hundred mechanical calculators (Odhner, Brunsviga, Facit, Addiator, Produx, etc.), adding machines (Comptometer, Burroughs, Plus, etc), counters (Durant, Record, Hengstler, Dux, etc), slide-rules (Aristo, Nestler,etc) etc. With books and manuals. Kees Nagtegaal
- calculatormuseum.nl: Early electronic calculators. The key collection is the early nixie tube desktop calculators, early pocket calculators of the brands Hewlett Packard, Texas Instruments, Litronix and the Russian brand Elektronika. Hans Bloemen
- sliderules.nl “David's Calculating Sticks” displays all of David Rance's slide rules, a "work in progress" for what is probably the largest collection in the Netherlands. In addition one can read here all of David's slide rule articles. David Rance
- planimetrica.jimdofree.com: Mathematical instruments from Europa and the USA. John Vossepoel
- ajmdeman.awardspace.info: Original documents on the history of calculating instruments, like manuals, advertisements, patents, papers Andries de Man
- sites.google.com/site/calculatinghistory: Articles on historical calculating instruments, with animations. Andries de Man
Links to individual collectors
- sliderule.ca: Website of a Canadian slide rule collector, nice and educating: many explanations, manuals and book reviews. Eric Marcotte
- giovannipastore.it/index_english.htm: Website of a Italian slide rule collector, compact main page with very diverse sub links. Giovanni Pastore
- rekenlat.barneveld.com: One other Dutch website on Slide Rules (and other subjects) Dries Molen
- mathsinstruments.me.uk: Mathematical instruments, large collection of calculating and drawing instruments with many pictures. David Riches
- sliderule.ozmanor.com: Neat website of Australian collector with his own collection of slide rules, and many downloads of manuals. Greg Scott
- vintagecalculators.com: Vintage Calculators Web Museum, mechanical, electrical, electronic Nigel Tout
- nzeldes.com/HOC/HOC_Core.htm HOC: History of Computing (highlights) Nathan Zeldes
- joernluetjens.de: Jörns Online-Museum with emphasis on the abacus and the slide rule, but also shows the range of Aristo pocket calculators (German and English version). Jörn Lütjens
- linealis.org: “Linealis”, the first French website on slide rules, but also other subjects like planimeters. Attractive and educating, for example the list of names of more than 30 French manufacturers. To see the nice pictures one has to browse some levels deeper Daniel Toussaint †, now maintained by the ARC
- reglasdecalculo.com: “Reglas de Calculo”, Spanish website containing much information, scans, manuals in more than one language. Jorge Fabregas Zazza
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photocalcul.com:
“PhotoCalcul”, French website with many pictures from Gonzalo's collection of calculating instruments, focusing on French types like Graphoplex.
The interesting collection of old French slide rules of Etienne Pommel has been included, with a history survey of Tavernier Gravet and his predecessors. Gonzalo Martin - sliderulemuseum.com/Archive/isrm_associates/hmd/index.htm: Website of Hubert van Dongen, who has become an expert on Faber-Castell, having collected already quite some information, for example an extensive “gross list” Hubert van Dongen
- zerfowski.com: “Mechanisches Rechnen Vergangener Jahrhunderte” by Detlef Zerfowski, with a huge bibliography on calculating instruments.
- satadorus.eu/vrml/yass_info/yass_info.html: YASS: “Yet Another Slide rule Simulation”: a 3-dimensional Pickett N909-ES trig & conversion rule simulation Olaf Veenstra
- rechenhilfsmittel.de: Die Gechichte der Rechenhilfsmittel (Duits) Jan Meyer
- hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm “The Museum of HP Calculators” also contains other calculating devices. David Hicks
- svpal.org/~dickel/OK: This website is specialised in Otis King. Dick Lyon
- mccoys-kecatalogs.com: Contains many slide rule oriented page scans from Keuffel&Esser catalogues. Clark McCoy
- IWA.de: One of the few remaining firms producing slide charts
- sphere.bc.ca/oldsite/test/sruniverse.html: Sphere Research - The Slide Rule Universe. Commercial, but also educating and very extensive website. Walter Shawlee II †
- Gilai.com: Gilai Collectibles - Scientific and Medical Instruments
- etesseract.com Tesseract Early Scientific Instruments.
- astragalpress.com: Astragal Press, publisher of books and facsimile volumes on tools and instruments