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Type | Model No. | Maker | Country | Construction Material | Date | Scale Length | Area of Use |
Disk | Autonetics Photon | North American Aviation | USA | Plastic | c. 1967 | dia = 23 cm | Blackbody radiation |
Notes: 1) Very rare slide rule designed for internal use at NAA 2) Calculates the incremental photon emittance for a blackbody 3) This rule was the only one capable of calculating photon emittance in a finite spectral band over a span of 45 orders of magnitude!
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