sliderule

The teacher refused to believe him. my old calculator is a 23 scale sliderule.

Cute pic: How times have changed | Sync Blog 2009

An 18-year old in 1940 would be… hang on, gotta dust off the sliderule… 86 today!

The Sunday Word: McCain Invokes ‘the Gipper’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The previous year a parody of fraternity rushing, "Hill Side Story", a parallel the Broadway musical, included Keuffel as in the sliderule company Nerdly.

You say nerd; I say knurd James Killus 2007

And ... as far as "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" is concerned, any book where the main character drools over the duplex sliderule and promotes the benefits of a education which involves higher mathematics, science, multiple foreign languages and the like deserves the term "classic"!

Another Heinlein Movie? 2004

I do something there, from time to time, sometimes with a red pencil, sometimes with a sliderule.

The Elegant Variation: ChristianBauman 2005

I do something there, from time to time, sometimes with a red pencil, sometimes with a sliderule.

GUEST: BORONDY, BIRNBAUM, AND THE PRICE OF TEA IN CHINA ChristianBauman 2005

Here's my cap, my pocket protector, and my sliderule.

WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: February 2004 Archives 2004

I did the stocktaking twice-a-year using a set of old scales with sets of individual gram weights (weighing balloons 10 at-a-time to obtain their average weights), my head, log tables and a sliderule to determine total numbers of various types of balloons.

Harold Kroto - Autobiography 1997

You need a sliderule and a computer and a place on the Internet to figure out whether you're qualified for one of these 70 programs.

President At Central Piedmont Com College Charlotte ITY National Archives 1996

The in-form Atletico Madrid striker deftly slipped his marker to drill a sliderule pass across the Korean goalmouth.

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