Basic Slide Rule Instructions (Popularity: )

Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.

Slide Rule Scales (Popularity: )

Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.

History of the Slide Rule (Popularity: )

Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information ...

How to Use a Slide Rule as a Bicycle Gear Chart (Popularity: )

Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so.

Napier's Bones (Popularity: )

A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), ...

How a Slide Rule Works (Popularity: )

Short lesson.

Slide Rule as a Teaching Tool (Popularity: )

Examples of how the slide rule is a useful tool for teaching the mathematical concept ...

The Coggeshall Slide Rule (Popularity: )

History of this unusual 1600s slide rule.

The Scales of the Slide Rule (Popularity: )

Various scales in a convenient tabular form. Includes mathematical formulation of the scales.

About Slide Rules (Popularity: )

Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.

Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule (Popularity: )

Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.

Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent (Popularity: )

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.

How To Make a Slide Rule (or Log-log or Semilog Graph Paper) (Popularity: )

Fairly simple instructions.

Instructions in Slide Rule Use (Popularity: )

Basic information and a number of manuals in pdf format.