"Slide rule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and took out my notebook and pencil, and laid my pocket slide rule in front of me. I always put the slide rule out where the inventor can see it to remind him that he is talking to another technical man, not just a lawyer. This helps make him stick to the facts. I didn't need the rule with Callahan, but ...
— The Professional Approach • Charles Leonard Harness
... found the young inventor hard at work in his private laboratory. He was tapping his head with his slide rule and frowning at a blackboard scrawled with equations when Bud dropped in ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton
... the application of the ballistic table. A slide rule should be used for the arithmetical operations, as it works to ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various
... pulled out a special slide rule designed for use in space. He had Koa stand by with stylus and computation board and take down figures as ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage
... passengers was an English officer, Captain Wheeler, with whom we had played many games of deck cricket on the voyage. First his regulation seventy cubic feet of baggage was lowered—an extraordinary amount, for no one without the aid of a slide rule and logarithms could possibly calculate it—and then he himself made the perilous descent—without a ducking. He would next have 240 miles of train journey to Coomassie and then a walk—or rather a journey in a hammock—for another ...
— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman |
