Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think we're now dating ourselves. The kids coming out of school now don't have a clue what a slide rule is or a log table either. My freshman chemistry teacher spent the first two weeks of the course teaching us how to use a slide rule. If you had his class before, you were excused. If you couldn't use the slide rule you failed the course. You couldn't finish the exams in time. Len On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Frank Filippone wrote: > Good point...... Not so sure about the use of adding machines in > engineering circles......Persona;;y I never saw them used in that > environment, nor my Dad... who was a Civil Engineer starting in 1941. > > I think that adding machines again were an accounting issue, not an > engineering issue..... but I am not sure > > Of course there are and were tables.... books of logarithms ..... > that were > used. Calculating Square Roots using tables is quite trivial.... > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > Have you guys never heard of Friden or Marchant desktop > calculators? These > were way more accurate than my old K&E slide rule. Friden even > made one > that calculated square roots. All of the checkpoint calculations > for our > digital data reduction programs were done by hand by some talented > ladies > using these machines. > > Jim Nichols > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information