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How to use a Slide Rule

 

Many simulation and demonstration programs of slide rules have been designed.

The following demonstration can be clicked straight away, to emulate a powerful 
Pickett 909 slide rule
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n909es/virtual-n909-es.html
This beautiful demonstration was made available by Derek Ross.

A very simple demonstration version of a shareware slide rule can be downloaded here
(zipped executable file of 256 KBytes) :

 SLG640.gif (9553 bytes)

It runs under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/98.

 

Look at an English manual (Thornton instruction book on Ron Manley's Slide Rule Site), or try 
the following Dutch summary.