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Vol. 0, No. 0, August 1991
AuthorTitlePage No.
The Editors Editorial
1
Rodger Shepherd The June Meeting in Oakland
3
The Editors Proposed Projects
5
Bob Otnes Saul Moskowitz - In Memoriam
6
Bob Otnes The Otis King Slide Rule
7
Bob Otnes The Charpentier Calculator
9
Bob Otnes Buro-Antik Auction in Koln, April 1991
12
The Editors Information
14
The Editors Letters and Advertisements
16

Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1992
AuthorTitlePage No.
The Editors The Journal of the Oughtred Society
1
The Editors The June 1992 Meeting
1
The Editors Reprinting Cajori
1a
The Editors Wanted: Slide Rule Articles
4
Rodger Shepherd Pickett Metal Slide Rules
5
Bruce E. Babcock, Ph.D. George Washington Richardson's Direct Reading Slide Rules
9
Henry Aldinger The Gilson Slide Rule Company
14
Al Bennett Small Wonder
16
Rodger Shepherd Pickett's Eye-Saver Yellow
18
Bob Otnes Log Log Scales
19
Bob Otnes Buro-Antik Auction in Koln, November 2, 1991
24
Rodger Shepherd Slide Rule Reviews
26
Robert K. Otnes Slide Rule Reviews
26
Robert K. Otnes Slide Rule Reviews
27
Robert K. Otnes Slide Rule Reviews
27
The Editors Information
28
The Editors Letters
28

Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1992
AuthorTitlePage No.
The Editors Editorial
1
Rodger Shepherd The June 1982 Meeting in Oakland
2
Osborne Price Oughtred Society Principle
4
Don Hudson Comments on Slide Rule Nomenclature
5
Bob Otnes Slide Rule Pencils
11
Henry Aldinger Gilson Slide Rules Revisited
13
Conrad Schure The Hart Equationor
15
Conrad Schure The SMALL Calculator - Part II
17
Izebrand Schuitema Slide Rule Cross Sections
19
Katsunori Kadokura Chronology of Japanese Hemmi Slide Rules
34
Rodger Shepherd How I Do It
39
Bob Otnes The Market Report
41
The Editors Slide Rule Reviews
43
The Editors Information
44
Bobby Feazel Letters
44

Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1993
AuthorTitlePage No.
The Editors Editorial
1
Rodger Shepherd The June, 1993 Meeting
1a
The Editors Photographic Standards
2
The Editors Cajori and Scanning
3
The Editors The Keuffel & Esser Issue
4
The Editors W.L.E. Keuffel
5
The Editors The Jack Burton Collection
15
Gordon Anthony The K&E Braille Slide Rule
19
Bob Otnes Thacher Notes
21
Osborne I. Price The Rare K&E 4110, An Improved Mannheim Rule
26
Conrad Schure The Conrad Schure Collection
28
Osborne I. Price Keuffel & Esser Patents
34
Rodger Shepherd How I Do It
38
Mel Larson The Runner
40
Mel Larson Runner, Indicator or Cursor?
47
The Editors K&E Issue - Concluding Thoughts
49
Bob Otnes The Market Report
50
Conrad Schure Letters
51
Don Hudson Letters
52

Vol. 2, No. 2, October, 1993
AuthorTitlePage No.
The Editors The Editorial
1
Rodger Shepherd The June 1993 Meeting in Oakland
1a
Dieter von Jezierski The Rietz System and Max Rietz
3
Rodger Shepherd The End of the ARISTO Slide rules: A Case Study
5
Booby Feazel Richard A. Gilson
8
Werner H. Rudowski German Patents and the Columbia
13
Bruce E. Babcock An Error on a Slide Rule for 50 Years?
15
Rodger Shepherd with Herschel E. Sawyer How I Do It
18
Jim Conrad Letters
21
Wayne Feely Letters
22
Ysebrand Schuitema The ALRO Circular Slide Rule
24
Bob Otnes The Market Report
38
Bob Otnes (Ed) Reviews
39

Vol. 3, No. 1, March, 1994
AuthorTitlePage No.
Rodger Shepherd Editorial and the June 1994 Meeting
1
Hans Dennert Dennert & Pape and Keuffel & Esser
3
Rodger Shepherd How I Do It
7
Bobby Feazel Palmer's Computing Scale
9
Al Bennett The Cooper 100-inch Slide Rule
18
Conrad Schure The Scofield-Thacher Slide Rule
20
Bruce Babcock A Guided Tour of an 18th Century Carpenter's Rule
26
Philip E. Stanley Letters
35
Wayne E. Feely Hemmi/Henmi Slide Rules
38
Bob Otnes The Market Report
39
Bob Otnes Paper
44

Vol. 3, No. 2, September, 1994
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
1
Rodger Shepherd Editorial
2
Rodger Shepherd Editorial
2a
Wayne Lehnert An Analysis of the Survey
5
Prof. Raymond Ayoub Napier and the Invention of Logarithms
7
Bruce E. Babcock Some Notes on the History and Use of Gunter's Scale
14
John Bonnycastle Bonnycastle on Gauging
21
Hans Dennert An Update on D&P and K&E Slide Rules
27
The Editors Figures on the Insert
29
Bob Otnes Paper
30
IJzebrand Schuitema Spirit Rules
31
Wayne Feely and Conrad Schure Thacher Slide Rule Production
38
Bobby Feazel Special Purpose Slide Rules
43
Conrad Schure Short Subjects
45
Tom Wyman Short Subjects
46
Conrad Schure Short Subjects
47
Rodger Shepherd Short Subjects
47a
Wayne E. Feely Short Subjects
48
Bob Otnes The Market Report
50
Roger Shepherd, Mark Gingrich and Bob Otnes Book Reviews
52

Vol. 4, No. 1, March, 1995
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
1
Bob Otnes Jack Burton 1918 - 1994
1a
Bob Otnes The June 1995 Meeting in Oakland
2
Bob Otnes The September 1995 Meeting in New Jersey
2a
Bob Otnes The November 1995 Meeting in Utrecht
3
Bob Otnes The Calculator Meeting in Dallas
3
Bob Otnes Article by Thacher
4
Bobby Feazel Palmer's Computing Scale - Revisited
5
Bob Otnes Log Log Scales - Revisited
9
Dieter von Jezierski The A. W. Faber-Castell Columbus System
12
IJzebrand Schuitema Translation of the Instructions for the Columbus
14
Richard Knight Branan's Rule An Undervalued Slide Rule
16
Bruce Babcock George Ward and The Gauger's Practice...
21
Al Bennett Schact & Westerich Calculator
26
Robert De Cesaris, Rodger Shepherd and Ray Baron Interesting variations in the First Metal Pickett
27
Editors Photographs
28
IJzebrand Schuitema Logomat Webeartikel Logomat Advertising Articles
29
Wayne Feely and Conrad Schure The Fuller Calculating Instrument
33
Bruce E. Babcock Two Noble Attempts to Improve the Slide Rule
41
Bob Otnes An Example of Napierian Logarithms
46
IJzebrand Schuitema The Appoullot Circular Slide Rule
48
Richard Knight Letters
53
The Editors Book Reviews
54
Bob Otnes Travels and the Market Report
55

Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1995
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
1
Conrad Schure The Annual June Meeting in Oakland
1a
Conrad Schure The September Meeting in New Jersey
3
Ir. IJ. Schuitema Oral Histories
5
R. C. Miller Nystrom's Calculator
7
Bob Otnes A Page from the 1883 Keuffel & Esser Catalog
14
John V. Knott Fowler & Company 1898-1988
16
Alan Morris Model Designations of Modern Era K&E Slide Rules
18
John V. Knott Joshua Routledge 1775-1829
25
Bob Otnes How Briggs Computed Logarithms
26
Bobby C. Feazel Colby's Slide Rule
27
The Editors Figures on the Insert
30
Rodger Shepherd Translation of an Article on F. Blanc's Slide Rule
31
Peter Hopp Otis-King Update
33
Bruce Babcock K&E Student's and Beginner's Slide rules - 1897 to 1954
41
Dieter von Jezierski Special Slide Rules of Faber-Castell
50
Colin Barnes The Customs and Excise Gauging Slide Rule
53
John Brook Letters
57
Dieter von Jezierski Letters
57
Bob Otnes Book Reviews
57a
Bob Otnes The Market Report
58

Vol. 5, No. 1, March 1996
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorials and News
1
Bob Otnes Brian B. LLoyd IJzebrand Schuitema The November 1995 Meeting in Utrecht
3
Bob Otnes The Thomson Log-Log Slide Rule
11
Gunter Kugel Log-Log Slide Rule of Blanc - Continued
12
R. C. Miller Gurley Slide Rule
14
IJzebrand Schuitema A Beer Slide Rule
17
The Editors The Centrefold
18
Bob Otnes and Conrad Schure The Blundell Vector Slide Rule
19
Bobby C. Feazel A Burton Special
20
IJzebrand Schuitema A Geological Slide Rule
21
Conrad Schure The Wollaston Chemical Slide Rule
22
Dieter von Jezierski Faber-Castell Combination Rules
24
Wayne Feely Update of Known Fuller and Thacher Rules
25
Rodger Shepherd Comment on the Fuller Listings
30
The Editors Departments
31
Bruce Babcock Explanation of the Back Cover Sketch
33

Vol. 5, No. 2, October 1996
AuthorTitlePage No.
The Editors Editorial and News
37
Rodger Shepherd Editorial and News
37
Peter Hopp Editorial and News
37a
The Editors Editorials and News
39
The Editors Editorials and News
39
Henry Aldinger The Dietzgen Company
40
Rodger Shepherd Some Distinctive Features of Dietzgen Slide Rules
42
Robert K. Otnes Dietzgen Patents, Runners and Log-Log Scales
45
Robert K. Otnes Dietzgen Calculation Devices
49
Bobby Feazel The Pilot Balloon Slide Rule
51
David C. Garcelon Solving the Keuffel & Esser Catalog Problem
52
The Editors Illustrations in the Centrefold
54
Bruce Babcock, Ph.D. Lawrence Engineering Service - A Tale from an American Small Town
55
Peter Hopp Otis-King - Conclusions?
62
IJzebrand Schuitema Slide Rule Hunting in Ireland
66
IJzebrand Schuitema IWAMATIC 1650 and the VOTSCH-variant
66a
Tom Wyman The Thomas Dixon Engineer's Slide Rule
68
Tom Wyman A visit to the Deutsches Museum
69
Conrad Schure Wollaston's Equivalents slide Rule
69a
The Editors Letters
70
The Editors The Internet
71
The Editors Publications of Interest
71a
The Editors Camera Technology
72
The Editors The Market Report
72

Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1997
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
Hans Dennert DENNERT & PAPE and ARISTO Slide Rules 1872 - 1978
4
Colin Barnes T.S. Emblem Series - Oral Histories
15
Derek Slater The Astronomical Scales of Oughtred's Calculator A Detective Story
16
Robert K. Otnes K&E Instruction Manuals
18
Robert L. Sauer Two Scarce K&E Rules
20
Heinz Joss A Circular Slide Rule in the Shape of a Ring
22
Benjamin L. Schwartz, Ph.D. Some Speciality Rules
23
Bruce E. Babcock A K&E Slide Rule for Planer Work
25
Edwin J. Chamberlain The Voith Slide Rule and Mechanical Pencil Combination
27
John V. Knott British Thornton - A Slide Rule Manufacturer of Manchester England
29
John V. Knott The British Thornton Slide Rule
30
Peter Hopp, Colin Barnes and John Knott UNIQUE Slide Rules
32
Thomas Wyman A Five-Piece Combination Gauging Rod and Slide Rule
45
Conrad Schure Slide Rule Watches
47
H.M. McCully Slide Rule Photography
48
The Editors Letters
49
The Editors Book Reviews
51

Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1997
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
Ed Chamberlain and Thomas Wyman June and September Meetings
2a
Dieter von Jezierski Further Notes on the Operation of Gunter's Rule
7
Bobby Feazel Electrical Wireman's Combined Gage and Calculator
9
Daniel Weinstock, M.D. The RHS Calculator
11
Philip Stanley William Cox on the Sector
13
William Cox the Sector
14
Bob Otnes Elmer A. Sperry and His Calculator
19
Jane Wess The Soho Rule
23
James Bready and Bruce Babcock Measuring the Volume of Logs: The Timber Contenting Slide Rule
27
Paul Sanik U.S. Army Air Corps Aerial Dead Reckoning Computer Type E-6B
32
Colin Barnes Dating Otis-King Slide Rules
35
Colin Barnes Fuller's Telegraph Computer
37
Bobby Feazel The Roylance Electrical Slide Rule
39
John V. Knott Joseph Halden & Co. A Slide Rule Manufacturer of Manchester, England
40
Rodger Shepherd Short Articles
42
Tom Wyman Short Articles
42a
Conrad Schure Short Articles
43
Conrad Schure The System Wern Slide Rule
44
The Editors Book Reviews
45
Raymond V. Giordano The American Scientific Instrument Market
47
Conrad Schure Letters
50
Bob Otnes and Conrad Schure Market Report
50a

Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring, 1998
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
Cyril Catt and Tom Wyman Meetings
2a
Rodger Shepherd The Dempster RotaRule
4
Bob Otnes Notes on Frederick Post Slide Rules
7
Joachim Fischer Napier and the Computation of Logarihms
11
Peter Soole Blundell - Blundell Harling - W.H. Harling Slide Rules A Brief History of Blundell Harling Limited
17
Bob De Cesaris The Mechanical Engineer
23
Pierre Vander Meulen Some Facts and Impressions on Chinese Slide Rules
25
Tom Wyman Slide Rules of the Stanley Rule & Level Company
30
Richard F. Lyon Dating of the Otis King: An Alternative Theory Developed Through Use of the Internet
33
Edwin Chamberlain Slide Rule Decimal Point Location Methods
38
Ross Grable Analysis of a Gilson Circular Rule
53
Bob Otnes A Golden Age 4071T by Keuffel & Esser
56
The Editors Letters
57

Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall, 1998
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
The Editors Meetings
2a
William Oughtred Oughtred on Gauging - 1633 AD
4
William Oughtred The New Artificial Gauging Line or Rod - Excerpts
5
Mark Rees Two Early Slide Rules
9
Bob Otnes Review
12
Colin Barnes Some Notes on Rules from the Former Soviet Union
13
Peter Hopp 1998 Membership Survey of Pocket Watch Type Rules
17
The Editors An Interview with Jack Burton and Gordon Anthony: The End of the Slide Rule Era at Keuffel & Esser - Part I
18
Dieter Von Jezierski Slide Rules By Molter
24
Robert J. Sauer Lalanne's Glass Slide Rule and an Associated Instruction Book
25
Bob Otnes American Slide Rule Instruction Books Before 1890
31
Bob Otnes The W.H. Harling, Ltd. Company
34
Peter Stevens A Brief History of the W.H. Harling, Ltd. Company
35
David Goodson Crafting Scale Rules by Hand - An Historical Note
36
Henry Aldinger Common Graduation and Early U.S. Slide Rules
42
Peter M. Hopp Fowler's Pocket-Watch Type Calculators
43
Bob Otnes and Robert Soltis Short Topics
50
IJzebrand Schuitema An Introduction to Articles on Dutch Contributions to Slide Rule History in the 20th Century
53
IJzebrand Schuitema No. 1 - K. Kasper and His Sewerage Rule
54
Tom Wyman The Slide Rule in College
57
Rick Blankenhorn The Marketplace
58
IJzebrand Schuitema European Organization of Slide Rule Collectors
60
Bob Otnes Don Black Mary Ferrari A Note to Authors
63

Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring, 1999
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
The Editors Meetings
2
The Editors Correction
2
Rodger Shepherd and Dieter von Jezierski The Molter Slide Rule
3
Robert J. Sauer Is Gauging an Archaic Practice?
5
Rodge Shepherd More on the Capacity of Barrels
8
Conrad Schure The French Lalanne Glass Slide Rules
10
Bruce Reichelt Pickett & Eckel Slide Rule Timeline
11
The Editors Letters
12
The Editors Reviews
14
D. J. Whythe, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. The Whythe Complex Slide Rule In Fuller Style
15
The Editors An Interview with Jack Burton and Gordon Anthony: End of the Slide Rule Era at Keuffel & Esser - Part II
18
The Editors How D&P and K&E Made Slide Rules
23
Edwin J. Chamberlain Long-Scale Slide Rules
24
Dieter von Jezierski and Rodger Shepherd Faber-Castell Model Numbers
35
Bob Otnes Adolph Keuffel and the Later K&E Slide Rules
37
IJzebrand Schuitema Articles on Dutch Contributions to Slide Rule History in the 20th Century No. 2 - F.J. Vaes
39
Jane Rees The Vade Mecum Slide Rule designed expressly for the timber trade by George Bousfield
43
Bob Otnes Direct Reading Frequency Response Slide Rule
49
Rick Blankenhorn The Market Place
51
The Editors Articles for the Fall Issue
52

Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall, 1999
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman Editorial
2
Tom Wyman Editorial
2a
The Editors Meetings
3
Bob Otnes George Fuller and His Slide Rule
4
Cyril Catt Slide Rule Accuracy
5
Bob Otnes The Gunter Rule
6
Bob Otnes Robertson's Slide Rule with Runner - 1788
7
M. Jomard The Slide Rule in France - 1815
11
Al Mosby The Pickett and Eckel Paper Slide Rule of 1943
17
IJzebrand Schuitema Aricles on Dutch Contributions to Slide Rule History in the 20th Century No. 3 - R.E.P. Wolthekker and His Road Curvature Slide Rule
21
Dennis Maack, Ph.D. An Unusual Russian Machinists' Rule
23
The Editors An Interview with Jack Burton and Gordon Anthony: End of the Slide Rule Era at Keuffel and Esser - Part III
27
J. E. Burns, MSc, FInstP Slide Rules for Calculating Radiographic Exposure
33
James Bready An Interesting Fowler Textile Calculator
40
Conrad Schure Cattle Gauge Slide Rules
41
Eli Maor The Number e
43
Peter M. Hopp, C.Eng, M.B.C.S. Pocket-Watch Slide Rules
45
Gary Steinbaugh, P.E., J.J. Bach and the Slide Rule
52
Mike Gabbert Slide Rule Competition in Texas High Schools
56
J. St. Vincent Pletts An Article from the Past on Log-Log Slide Rules. Some Slide Rule Improvements
59
ir. H. van Herwijnen How to Make Pictures of Slide Rules with a Digital Camera
62
Rodger Shepherd and Dieter von Jezierski More on the Molter Slide Rule
63
The Editors Arithmographe par M. Gattey
64

Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2000
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman Editorial
2
Tom Wyman Meetings
2a
Panagiotis Venetsianos A.W. Faber Castell Slide Rules - The Relationship Between Date of Manufacture and Indication of Brand Name, Model Number, and Model Name
3
Joseph Soper On Mandrels and Electroforms - The Making of Molded Slide Rules at the Keuffel & Esser Co.
7
Bob Otnes The Market Report
8
Graham Ford What is IT?
8
Clay Castleberry A Challenge to Oughtred Society Members
9
Donald F. Murtagh Slide Rules and Slide Rule Type Devices
9a
Heinz Joss A Letter Regarding the Molter Slide Rule
10
Alex E. S. Green Operations Analysis and the 20th AF Slide Rules of WW II - August 1944 to September 1945
11
Rodger Shepherd Two Log Spiral Devices
23
Jay Francis The Back-Light Screen Projection Slide Rule
27
Conrad Schure Unique Use for Slide Rule as Advertisement
31
Conrad Schure The Robinson Calculator
31a
Jay Francis Errors in Manufacturing of the Pickett C19 Collins Radio Microwave Slide Rule
32
John Mosand Two Unusual Types of Trigonometric Scales
33
Bob Otnes Modelling Slide Rule Standard Deviation
35
Shannon Freudiger, Michael Freudiger, and Dr. Robert Koppany A Qualitiative Analysis on a Quantitative Device
38
John Knott Wages Calculating Machine Made by John Davies & Son of all Saints Works, Derby
41
Heinz Joss A Circular Slide Rule to Calculate Production Data for Safety Matches
42
Peter M. Hopp C.Eng. M.B.C.S. Mystery Pocket-Watch Calculators
44
Henry Aldinger and Ed Chamberlain Gilson Slide Rules - Part I - The Small Rules
48
The Editors Henry P. Aldinger, Jr. - An Autobiography
61
John Knott Index 1995 Through 1999
62

Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall, 2000
AuthorTitlePage No.
The Editors Hans Dennert (1926-2000)
1
Tom Wyman Sixth International Meeting a Resounding Success
1a
Robert De Cesaris Meetings
2
Thomas Wyman Binding Copies of the JOS
3
Rodger Shepherd Symposium in Greifswald in September 2000
3a
Rodger Shepherd And One Thing Led to Another ...
4
James Bready Market Report for the June Meeting
5
The Editors The Oughtred Society Website
5
Herman van Herwijnen The Beginning Collector
6
Hugh Tidy A Poor Man's Guide to Searching for Slide Rules in England
7
IJzebrand Schuitema Slide rules for Underwater Activities
9
Walter Shawlee 2 Thousands of Rules and Millions of Bytes Later - The Slide Rule Universe and Other Internet Stories
13
Dr. Ing. Federico Ramirez Santa-Pau The Artillery Graphical Firing Table: A Description of a Specialized Slide Rule
17
Peter M. Hopp. CEng. MBCS Ivory, Bone, or Plastic?
21
The Editors Book Reviews
23
The Editors Letters
25
Heinz Joss A Tablet Slide Rule by Julius Billeter, Zurich
27
Brian Borchers and Noel H. Cotter The Sun Hemmi System of trigonometric and Hyperbolic Scales
28
Dieter von Jezierski and Rodger Shepherd Taylor, Taylorism, and Machine-time Slide Rules
32
Paul Ross and Ted Hume Slide Rules of The Frederick Post Company
37
Henry Aldinger and Ed Chamberlain Gilson Slide Rules - Part II - The Large Rules
47
Bruce Craven Thoughts on Japan, Deming, Quality and the Statistical Quality Control Slide Rule
59
Paul Ross Relay/Ricoh Slide Rules
64

Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring, 2001
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman Editorial
1
Kate Matthews New on the OS Website
1
Rodger Shepherd The Faber Slide Rule Manuals by Pickworth
2
Michael P. O Leary Pickett from a Manufacturing Perspective
13
Howard W. Andrews, Ph.D., and Conrad Schure, P.E. Photography by Carl Andrews A Slide Rule for Wire Drawing Calculations
15
Bob Otnes Keuffel & Esser - 1880 to 1899
18
The Editors Classic Reprint: The Duplex Slide Rule
29
Pierre Vander Meulen Sikes's Hydrometer and Related Slide Rules
30
Mortimer Hans The Load Adjuster: It Looks Like a Slide Rule, But Is It?
34
The Editors An Article from 1815 on a Circular Slide Rule
39
The Editors Letters
42
Dieter von Jezierski Two German Wages Calculating Machines
45
Tom Wyman Norbert Wiener and the Slide Rule or How American Mathematicians Came of Age
46
Gary Lazarus Financial Slide Rules
47

Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall, 2001
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Otnes Tenth Anniversary
1
Tom Wyman Kilderkins, Hogsheads & Dipping Rod: A Brief History of the Slide Rule
2
Joe Soper K&E Culture: The story behind the Bronze Buckle
9
Rodger Shepherd and Zachary Fluhr Wages Calculators or Rim Slide Rules?
10
Dieter von Jezierski The Faber-Castell Taschenrechner (TR): A Pocket Calculator Combined with a Slide Rule
12
Michael Freudiger Shannon Freudiger Patrick Hawthorne and Dr. Robert Koppany Mathematics on the Moon - The Apollo Pickett
15
K. Finstuen, M.Sc., M.Ed., Ph.D. Handicapping Derby Thoroughbreds: Edward's Minit, Race-O-Matic, and Kel-Co II Slide Rules
19
Peter M. Hopp, CEng, MBCS John Suxspeach's Catholic Organon or Universal Sliding Foot Rule, or The First Slide Rule Patent
25
Raymond Baron The Norden and Sperry Bombsights
30
Heinz Joss Wittgenstein and His Calculating Devices
31
Tom Wyman Description of Two Unmarked Slide Rules of Probable French Origin
37
Bob Otnes The 30th Edition of the Keuffel & Esser Catalogue - 1900-01
38
Bob Otnes and Bob DeCesaris The K&E Universal Slide Rule
45
Conrad Schure The Keuffel & Esser Triangular Slide Rule
49
Kate Matthews The Evolution of the 4092
52
Tom Wyman Numeracy and the Slide Rule
55
R. Koppany The Saturday, June 30, 2001, 11th Annual Oughtred Society Meeting
56
Bob Otnes The Sheppard Duodecimal Slide Rule
57
George Fuller The Spiral Slide Rule
58
Conrad Schure The Keuffel and Esser American Slide Rule
59
James L. Sieber Calculating Using the Diagonal Scale
60
Otto van Poelje 7th International Meeting of Slide Rule and Mechanical Calculator Collectors, Munich, September, 2001
61
The Editors News and Reviews
63
The Editors A Note to Authors
64

Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring, 2002
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman Editorial
1
Bob Otnes Editorial
2
Christopher J. Sangwin Newton's Polynomial Solver
3
Edwin J. Chamberlain, PE Three American printed Page Logarithmic Calculating Scales
8
Peter Holland Printed logarithmic calculating scale by Loewe
14
Irene Dennert Aristo Slide Rule production in Bavaria
17
Francis Wells and Tom Wyman La Regle a Calcul: Lenoir, Gravet-Lenoir and Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rules
23
Bob Otnes and Conrad Schure Early French Slide Rules in Various Collections
28
Howard W. Andrews, PhD. A Slide Rule for Radiation Calculations
32
William Batcher, Ed.D. Teaching the Slide Rule
35
Guus Craenen Albert Nestler: Innovation and Quality
38
Rodger Shepherd Letters
46
Henry Aldinger as told to Bob Otnes The Voltage Drop Slide Rule by C.C. Moler
47
John Mosand The ARISTO Electronic Calculators
48
Richard Knight Two Unusual Early Slide Rules
49
Bob Otnes The Lightning Calculator - Bonham, Hook and Pangborm
53
Dieter von Jezierski Two Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rule Systems
59
Michael P. O Leary One Man's Collection
62
Joe Soper The Slide Rule and Early Astronaut Training
63

Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall, 2002
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman The 8th International Meeting of Slide Rule Collectors - IM2002
1
Conrad Schure The East Coast Oughtred Society Meeting
2
Bob Otnes Mea Culpa
2
Richard Blankenhorn and Robert De Cesaris The Fowler Calculators - A Catalogue Raisonne
3
Thomas Wyman Discussing Chemistry and Steam, The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780-1787
12
Conrad Schure The Remarkable Hemmi 22
13
Wendy Rath 101 Things to Do on a Wet Afternoon
14
Joe Soper Frederic H. Leubuscher and K&E Salisbury Products, Inc
15
Panagiotis Venetsianos Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rules: a Chronology of Cited Examples
21
Bob Otnes The 31st (1903) and 32nd (1906) Editions of the K&E Catalogue
24
Michael P. O Leary The Conceptual Logarithmic Dividing Engine
33
Michael P. O Leary The Keuffel & Esser Logarithmic Dividing Engine
35
Henry Aldinger and Bob Otnes The Meilicke Calculators
41
Eli Maor Shadows of the Atomic Age
42
Editor Correction
43
Heinz Joss and Rodger Shepherd Neither Straight, Circular nor Cylindrical: The Ring Binder Slide Rule of Franckh, Stuggart
44
Mark Glusker Thomas Fowler's Ternary Calculating Machine: How a 19th Century Inventor's Departure from Decimal Presaged the Modern Binary Computer
48
Peter M. Hopp, C.Eng. MBCS. Ratcliffe - Mathematical Instrument Making in the Area
50
Tom Wyman Customs Officers on the London Docks
55
Clay Castleberry The Easterly Rafter Slide Rule or a Man and His/My Slide Rule
56
Editor Miscellaneous
58
Bob Otnes American Planimeters
59

Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 2003
AuthorTitlePage No.
The President Message from the President
1
The Editor The Oughtred Society West Coast 13th Annual Meeting/Show/Auction
1
The Editor International Meeting IM2003 in Amsterdam
1a
The Editor Book Reviews - The Collector's Library
2
Brian Borchers Five Pickett Electronics Slide Rules
4
Tom Wyman Textile Slide Rules - Special-Purpose Calculators for a Major Industry
8
Kate Matthews Snipes and Poppers: A Collector's Introduction to Buying and Selling on eBay - Part One: How to Buy
16
Michael P. O Leary How Does the Analon Work?
18
Peter Hopp, C.Eng. M.B.C.S Suxspeach (Continued)
19
Conrad Schure A Most Unusual K&E Slide Rule
23
Bob Otnes Keuffel & Esser Slide Rules 1909
25
David D. McFarland Lightning Subtraction
33
Paul Ross A Comprehensive Hemmi Slide Rule Catalog
41
Bruce O.B. Williams The Computing Board: An Ambitious All-Purpose Calculating Device and Some Similar Concepts
54
Bob Otnes The Groesbeck Adder (1870)
59
Howard Andrews and Conrad Schure The Cox Lathe Gear Computer
63

Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall, 2003
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman IM2003 - A Memorable Event
2
Silke Tudor SLIDE RULES At a gathering of the Oughtred Society, the reckoning may be dead or logarithmic, but the conversation is always right on the mark
5
Editor The September 2003 Symposium in Greifswald
6
Colin Barnes The UK Slide Rule Circle
7
Otto E. van Poelje Book Review: The Slide Rule, Technical Cultural Heritage...
7a
Editor Rod Lovett's Website
8
Staff The Incredible Curta - A Nifty Thing
9
Bob Otnes Keuffel & Esser Slide rules - 1913
10
Dieter von Jezierski Lang's Grain Density Caliper-Slide Rule Combination
17
Bruce E. Babcock The Evolution of the K&E 4088-2 and 4088-3 Slide Rules
20
Bruce E. Babcock Twin Slide Rules? The K&E 4088 and the Post 1458
25
David D. McFarland Addition and Subtraction With Slide Rules and Allied Instruments, Part I
27
Kate Matthews Snipes and Poppers: A Collector's Introduction to Buying and Selling on eBay. Part Two - How to Sell
37
Kate Matthews Just Popping Along
42
Bob Otnes The Boucher Style Pocket Calculator
43
Otto van Poelje The Demise of the Slide Rule (and the Advent of its Successors)
49
Tom Wyman Textile Slide Rules - A Supplement
54
Connie Langland Who Remembers What a Slide Rule Is?
57
Conrad Schure The Imperial Equalisation Slide Rule
58
Editor Instructions for Authors
59
Bob Otnes A Binary Based Slide Rule
60
Howard W. Andrews Der Rechenuhr
61
Conrad Schure A Slide Rule to Handle Five Factors Simultaneously
63
Editor The Mechanism of Blaise Pascal's Adding Machine
64

Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring, 2004
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman President's Message
1
IJezebrand Schuitema Annie Schuitema - van Beinum
1
Bob Otnes From the Editor
1
The Editor Book Reviews
2
Bob Otnes Miscellaneous Rules
2a
Mortimer Hans A U.S. Radar Slant Range Computer
3
Tom Wyman Slide Chart Calculators - A Modest Proposal
6
Otto van Poelje Gunter Rules in Navigation1
11
Edwin J. Chamberlain, PE Long-Scale Slide Rules Revisited
23
Simon A.M. van der Salm Renard's Preferred Numbers
44
Kate Matthews A Man and His Slide Rules - Tools for a Lifetime
54
Timo Leipala The Hasselblatt Slide Rule System
60
John Mosand The Amazing P Scales
64

Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall, 2004
AuthorTitlePage No.
IJzebrand Schuitema In Memoriam - Herman van Herwijnen
1
Editor Announcements
2
Brian Borchers and Bob Otnes Book Reviews
2a
Klaus Kuehn IM 2004 in Bad Driburg, Germany
4
Editor Letters to the Editor
5
Ted Hume Announcing The Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual
7
Deborah G. Douglas, Ph.D A Landmark Acquisition: The Keuffel & Esser Company Slide Rule Collection Comes to the MIT Museum
8
Dieter von Jezierski with Detlef Zerfowski and Paul Weinmann A.W. Faber Model 366 - System Schumacher A Very Unusual Slide Rule
10
Clay Castleberry The Hemmi 22: Revisiting A Dandy Little Slide Rule
17
Conrad Schure The Museum of Early Engineering Technology
18
Rick Blankenhorn H.W. Kearns & Co. Ltd. - Machine Time Computer by Fowler
19
William Cox The Duplex Slide Rule1
20
Bob Otnes A Note on the Inverted Scale
21
Otto van Poelje Diagonals and Transversals: Magnifying the Scale
22
Gary Flom and Totton Heffelfinger The Bead Unbaffled
29
Tom Wyman An 1880s American Slide Rule for Students
42
Bruce E. Babcock, Ph.D. The Slide Rule and the Steam Engine Indicator
46
Bob Otnes A.M. Stephenson and His Adder (1873)
55
Bob Otnes and Pano Venetsianos The Calculator of Claude Perrault
61
Nathan Zeldes A Memorable Slide Chart
63

Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, 2005
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman From the OS President
1
Otto E. van Poelje Announcing: The Oughtred Society Award and Call for Nominations
1
Otto van Poelje Dutch Circle Has Expanded in Focus and Name
2
Otto van Poelje Letter
2
The Editor Book Review
2a
Gary Flom The Oughtred Society Swap Sheet Is Now Online
3
The Editor Articles of Interest in the Current Issue, Bulletin of the SIS
3
Alex E.S. Green How Slide Rules Won a War
4
Paul R. Huff Slide Rules in the Classroom - An Anecdotal Report
12
Dagmar Rutzen Getting Hooked on Slide Rules - A Classroom Tale
14
Christopher J. Sangwin Non-logarithmic Slide Rules
16
Warren Salomon Hemmi's 50-Centimeter Slide Rules
18
Clark McCoy The K&E 4110 Power Trig Slide Rule Revisited
28
Otto E. van Poelje Adriaen Vlacq and Ezechiel de Decker: Dutch Contributors to the Early Tables of Briggsian Loagarithms
30
Richard Smith Hughes On the Evolution of K&E Vector Slide Rules
41
John M. Zowtiak Don't Panic, Nothing Can Go Wrong, Go Wrong, Go Wrong,...!1
45
Werner H. Rudowski The Schnellkalkulator System Bloch: A Mechanical Nomographic Table
46
George E. Keane A Short History of the Festus Manufacturing Company and its Successors, the Acu-Rule Manufacturing Company, Makers of the Acu-Rule and ACUMATH Slide Rule
51
William K. Robinson Slide Rules with Hyperbolic Functions1
55
John Mosand The Aristo Scholar Series
63
The Editor Journal of The Oughtred Society Guidelines for Authors
64
Conrad Schure The McCoy Golf Recorder
65

Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall, 2005
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman President's Message
2
Brian Borchers Bob Otnes Book Reviews
2a
IJzebrand Schuitema Mr. K. Kasper - In Memoriam
3
Brian Borchers Prosthaphaeresis
3a
Tom Wyman UK Slide Rule Circle Sponsors Well-Attended International Meeting, IM 2005
5
Tom Wyman, Louis Gotlib, and Ed Chamberlain The Oughtred Society East Coast Meeting, November 11-13, 2005
5a
Rodger Shepherd Otto van Poelje Letters
6
Otto E. van Poelje The Oughtred Society Hall of Fame: Presentation of Awards and Fellowships
7
Gary Flom, Coordinator The Oughtred Society Swap Sheet Online
9
Tom Wyman The Slide Rules of Reverend William Flower
10
Conrad Schure The Kentish Slide Rule
15
Peter Holland Archimedes - His Approach Towards Logarithms
17
Colin Barnes John Davis & Son (Derby) Ltd.
22
Leighton Lee III Designing Three Variable Slide Charts
32
John Mosand Aristo's Further Development of the Darmstadt System
34
Otto E. van Poelje The Navigation Scale, Improved by B. Donn1
36
Werner H Rudowski Years become Shorter - Like the Logarithmic Distances on a Slide Rule
43
Peter Hopp Other Men and Their Slide Rules
44
Ted Hume The Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual
47
David D. McFarland A Decade After The End: A Slide Rule Instruction Book Published in 1984
48
Lloyd Kannenberg Thou Preparest a Table Before Me
53
Gary S. Flom The Keuffel & Esser Building in New York City
54
Gary S. Flom Interview with Gerd Keuffel
57
Richard Smith Hughes and William K. Robinson Chinese Vector Slide Rules
59
Brian Borchers The Crichlow Slide Rule
63

Vol. 15, No. 1, 2006
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman "Pioneers" of The Oughtred Society
1
Otto E. van Poelje The Oughtred Society Award 2006: Call for Nominations
2
Rodger Shepherd Briefly Noted
2
Editor Hans Bethe: Physicist and Slide Rule User
2
Thomas Wyman Politics, Poetry, and England's Customs and Excise1
3
Kate Matthews The Beginning Collector
9
Tom Wyman Slide Rules and Problematical Recreations
11
John Mosand Aristo Special Models
12
Editor J.H. Blair's Adder
14
David G. Rance Slide Rules Are ... Music To My Ears!1
15
Tom Wyman The Demise of the Slide Rule
24
Richard Smith Hughes A "Universal" Stadia Slide Rule: the Shanghai Slide Rule Factory Model Number 1005
25
Michael Konshak The Spring Design Slide Rule Calculator
28
Clay Castleberry China Paper Face Slide Rules - K & E Knockoffs
36
Bob Otnes Lologs and Illologs
37
Michael Konshak Richardson and Gilson
39
Brian Borchers Tens' Complement Arithmetic
44
Otto E. van Poelje Reverse Polish Notation for Electronic Calculators
45
Werner H. Rudowski Anecdotes about Logarithms
48
Ted Hume A Former Slide Rule Collector's Tale
49
Richard Smith Hughes A Pocket Slide Rule for Electronic Engineers: the Tianjin 6508
50
Ted Hume The Popular Post Versalog Slide Rule
53
Panagiotis Venetsianos and Bob Otnes The Calculator of Claude Perrault
56
Richard Smith Hughes The Flying Fish 1018 Gudermannian Slide Rule
58
M. D'Ocagne Some Remarks on Logarithms Apropos to Their Tercentenary1
61

Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman, President Congratulations, Walter Shawlee!
1
Bruce Babcock A Short List of Slide Rule Exhibits and Other Public Activities
1a
Otto van Poelje, Clark McCoy, and Kate Matthews The Oughtred Society Survey 2006 - Summary1
3
Thomas Wyman The Future of Slide Rule Collecting
4
Otto E. van Poelje Pocketbook of the Gauge Marks1 by Panagiotis Venetsianos Gift to Members of the Oughtred Society
8
Werner H. Rudowski Is This The Mysterious Midget Fuller?
9
Tom Wyman A 1595 Book Annotated by Oughtred is Offered for Sale
10
Editor Letters to the Editor
11
Otto E. van Poelje News from the Dutch Circle, the "KRING"
11a
Rodger Shepherd Henry P. Aldinger, Jr. (1916-2006) An Appreciation
12
Editor Alfred E. Busch
12
Peter M.Hopp John Brown's Book and Spiral Slide Rule1
13
Christopher J. Sangwin Locating the Center of Mass by Mechanical Means
14
Tim Robinson Modeling the Difference Engines of Charles Babbage
19
Panagiotis Venetsianos The Gauge Mark Booklet
27
Werner H. Rudowski The Oldest German Slide Rule
30
John Mosand Aristo End Braces
35
Gunnar Englund System Wern Circular Slide Rules - A Collector's Dream Come True
37
Tom Wyman Slide Rules - Gone but Not Forgotten
41
Werner H. Rudowski How Well Known Were Slide Rules in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Before the Second Half of the 19th Century?
42
Richard Smith Hughes Watch Your Ps and Qs - The Pythagorean Scales - Are They Worth the Effort?
50
Richard Smith Hughes Faber-Castell 2/84 and 2/84N Mathemas1
58
Eli Maor A Woman and Her Slide Rule
62
Werner H. Rudowski How Long is One Foot?
63

Vol. 16, No. 1, 2007
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman President's Message
1
Editor Editorial Comment
2
Editor The Oughtred Society Award 2007: Call for Nominations
2a
Clark McCoy Announcement
3
Louis Gotlib Aaron Lerner - An Appreciation
3a
Werner H. Rudowski The Sliding Gunter - Who Was its Inventor?
5
Otto E. van Poelje The Sliding Gunter - Reconstruction of the Partridge Scales
8
Otto E. van Poelje The Sliding Gunter - Versions for Navigation at Sea1
12
David D. McFarland Tables of Quarter-Squares, Sociologic[al] Applications, and Contributions of George W. Jones
19
Editor Annual Meeting of the Oughtred Society, June 30, 2007
26
Ronald van Riet Slide Rules and Other Mechanical Calculating Devices in Aviation
27
Editor Errata, JOS Vol. 15 No. 2
32
Dieter von Jezierski Slide Rule Tie Bars
33
Tom Wyman On Cleaning a Slide Rule
36
Richard Smith Hughes The Faber-Castell 989 Komplex-Rechenplatte1
37
Conrad Schure The Ganga Ram Slide Rule
48
Peter Hopp John Brown, "Carpenters Rules..."
50
Kate Matthews, Clark McCoy, Otto van Poelje The Report of the 2006 Survey Committee
52
Conrad Schure Genaille's Rods
61
Richard Smith Hughes John R. Dempster's RotaRule Model AA; A Masterpiece in the Art of Slide Rule Design
62

Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007
AuthorTitlePage No.
Tom Wyman IM 2007: The Dutch Excel Again!
1
Otto E. van Poelje Presentation of The Oughtred Society Award for 2007
2
Tom Wyman Oughtred's Last Book
2
Conrad Schure The Nystrom Calculator - The First Patented American Slide Rule
3
Allan Boardman Recollections of a Pickett Industries Employee1
8
The Editor The Hart and Hatfield Adder
9
Clark McCoy Highlights of the A.J. Boardman Collection of Pickett Slide Rules
10
Tom Wyman More About Slide Chart Devices
15
John Mosand Another Aristo End Brace
19
David D. McFarland Quarter-Squares Revisited: Earler Tables, Division of Labor in Table Construction, and Later Implementations in Analog Computers
20
Simon A.M. van der Salm Benford's Logarithmic Distribution of Digits
26
Richard Smith Hughes Stadia or Tacheometric Slide Rules, Part II1
32
The Editor The Gancher and Kodoma Adder
42
Werner H Rudowski Leibniz and His Logarithmic Calculating Cylinder
43
Bob Otnes A "Mystery" Calculator from the Far North
47
James G. Kennedy Arithmetic with Roman Numerals1
48
Kate Matthews Slide Rule Doggerel
49
Otto E. van Poelje On Collecting, Preservation, and Stewardship
50
Tom Wyman UKSRC Publications
52
Tom Wyman A Summary of Gauging Practices Employed by English Excise Officers
53
Bernie Schweitzer as told to Bob Otnes My Engineering Tools
62

Vol. 17, No. 1, 2008
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor The Oughtred Society's New Winter Meeting
1
Editor Obituary
1
Conrad Schure Boucher's Bouchers
2
Otto E. van Poelje Early Drawings of Logarithmic Scales by Gunter and Wingate
5
Editor A New Comprehensive Index for The Journal of the Oughtred Society
10
Tom Wyman An Update on Log-Log Slide Rules Before 1910
11
Peter M.Roget, M.D. Description of a New Instrument for Performing Mechanically the Involution and Evolution of Numbers
15
Michael Konshak Slide Rules for Rocketeers
22
Peter Hopp and Bob Otnes A Letter of 1683 From William Oughtred to Elias Allen
28
Clay Castleberry A Missing Gilson Midget?
33
Robert K. Otnes Ph.D. Notes on Mechanical Fourier analyzers
34
Richard Smith Hughes The Keuffel and Esser Roylance 4133 Electrical Slide Rule
42
David G. Rance REED Riddle Solved!
46
Edwin J. Chamberlain, P.E. Circular Slide Rules with Very Long Scales
52

Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008
AuthorTitlePage No.
Thomas Wyman IM 2008 a Resounding Success
1
IJzebrand Schuitema My Collection Has A New Home
2
Editor In Memoriam: Osborne Price (Sept. 30, 1930 - June 3, 2008)
4
Richard Smith Hughes On A Mystery Slide Rule From the MIT Museum K and E Cabinet
5
Dieter von Jezierski Sonne's Circular Slide Rule
6
Editor The Oughtred Society Hall of Fame
9
Eli Maor On Abaci of Every Kind
10
Bob Otnes Eli Maor's Latest Book
16
Dieter von Jezierski The Duplex Slide Rules of Faber-Castell
17
Thomas Wyman Diarist Samuel Pepys and Slide Rules
22
Clay Castleberry Dr. Prince's Refracting Rule Made by K and E
28
David D. McFarland Square Roots by Slide Rules and Other Means
29
Paul McConnell Slide Rules, Sextants, and the Sky: Instrumentation Milestones in Aerial Celestial Navigation
40
Dr. Ing. E.h. Gunter Kugel Mystery Slide Rule from the K and E Cabinet at the MIT Museum
51
Ronald E. Manley Timber Rules and Their Use
59
Editor Oughtred's Universal Ring Dial
64

Vol. 18, No. 1, 2009
AuthorTitlePage No.
Otto E. van Poelje The Erlang Dial Slide Chart for Telephone Exchange Traffic Blocking Probabilities
1
Richard Smith Hughes Elektro/Electro Slide Rules: A Critical Evaluation
5
Ian Lodge Dietzgen 10-Inch Duplex Log-Log Slide Rule Chronology Part I, to 1956
10
Ian Lodge Dietzgen 10-Inch Duplex Log-Log Slide Rule Chronology Part II: 1956 to 1973
15
Richard Smith Hughes Confessions of A Slide Rule Addict
19
Stephan Weiss The Tens Carry: Remarks on Didier Roth's Multiplicateur et Diviseur a Reglettes
21
Marion Moon Function-Scale Proportion on a Slide Rule
24
Clay Castleberry A Timepiece for the Time
32
Bruno Jannamorelli Napier's Prontuarium
35
W. Richard Davis The Boykin RotaRule
39
Clay Castleberry Those Decimal-Keeping Cursors?
46
R.C. Blankenhorn The Otis King's Patent Calculators - Catalogue Raisonne
49
Bob Otnes Calculating Instruments at the Smithsonian - In Memoriam
52
Clay Castleberry A Lucky Find: A K and E 4032
54
Bob Otnes A Good Slide Rule
55
Jurgen Nestler and Colin Barnes Albert Nestler A.G. and the Pi Symbol
56
Bob Otnes The Lindholm Adder (1886)
62

Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob De Cesaris President's Message
1
Editor Introducing the new Editorial Team
1
Peter M. Bloemendaal Medical Calculating Disc by Dr. A. Lips
2
Ted Hume Pre-announcement - The Oughtred Society 2010 Winter Meeting
6
Walter Shawlee Strange Variations
7
Chris Hakkart and Otto van Poelje Pre-announcement International Meeting IM2010 in Leiden, the Netherlands September 17 and 18, 2010
8
Clark McCoy and Tom Wyman Oughtred Society 2009 Annual Meeting
9
Conrad Schure The Ewing Apps Circular Engineers Slide Rule
11
Clay Castleberry Multitasking Slide Rule for the 1950s
14
Brian Borchers Book Review
16a
Editor Book Announcement
16b
David G. Rance 15th Annnual Meeting - IM2009
17
Peter Alfeld Many Formulas
18
Stephan Weiss Non-decimal Slide Adders and the Carry
22
Klaus Kuhn The Oughtred Society Awards 2009
25
Alex E.S. Green A 90th Birthday Cake Slide Rule
27
Otto E. van Poelje Book Review. A.W. Faber & A.W. Faber-Castell
29
Clark McCoy Membership Report as of October 30, 2009
30
Bob Otnes The Log Log Scales on the D and P Elektro Slide Rule of 1919
31
Thomas Wyman The First Tables of Logarithms - A Brief Chronology
33
Richard Smith Hughes and Clark McCoy K and E 4102 Surveyor's Duplex Slide Rule
40
Trevor Catlow Suggestions for Dating pre-1920 Faber-Castell Slide Rules
46
Bob DeCesaris, Dieter von Jezierski, Tom Wyman Special Comments for Robert K. Otnes
54
David Sweetman Seeing the Light
58
John Mosand A Brief History of the Aristo Studio Slide Rule
60
Bob Koppany The Worthington Centrifugal Pump Specific Speed Calculator
64

Vol. 19, No. 1, 2010
AuthorTitlePage No.
Kate Matthews Notes from the Vice President
1
Kate Matthews Oughtred Society Meetings
1
Bob Koppany Editorial
2
Marion Moon Square Root of 10 Folded Scales
3
Chris Hakkaart and Otto van Poelje Invitation to IM2010 0n 17-18th September in Leiden, the Netherlands
7
Werner H. Rudowski A Brass Slide Rule by Dennert and Pape
8
Michael V. Konshak If You Build It, They Will Come. Slide Rule Loan Program for Schools
10
Bryan Purcell Using Old Tools to Solve a Modern Problem. The Reintroduction of the Slide Rule to the Classrom
14
David G. Rance The Mystery of the Disappearing Bakelite
17
Curtis A. Jones Log Log Scale for Exponential Decay
27
Otto van Poelje Joint Slide Rules by Peter Hopp
28
Peter Holland Early Cooperation between A.W. Faber and Dietzgen
29
Louis Gotlib Oughtred Society Fall East Coast Meeting 2009
30
Clay Castleberry Public Display of Your Collection
31
David G. Rance Who is your choice for an Award in 2010?
32
W. Richard Davis John R. Dempster, The Remarkable Dempster RotaRule and the Extraordinary Dempster Family
33
Peter Holland Magnetic Slide Rules by ITAB
41
Bob Koppany A Pickett N3T Variant
46
Richard Smith Hughes Specialized Slide Rules for Electronic Engineers: A Critical Review. My World and Welcome to It
47
Otto E. van Poelje Calculating Disc by Benjamin Ayres (circa 1750)
54
John Mosand The Aristo 920 Federfix - System Niemann
59
Marc Thomas A Very Early Lenoir Slide Rule
60

Vol. 19, No. 2, 2010
AuthorTitlePage No.
David Sweetman The Kemet Reliability Calculator
1
William E. Wheeler Building a Duplex Display Case for Duplex Slide Rules
3
David M Riches Sterling Slide Adders
5
Bob DeCesaris Harold David Rueb (1939-2009)
9
Werner H. Rudowski A Pair of Old Austrian Calculating Rods in Bavaria
10
Richard Smith Hughes The Evolution of K & E Slide Rules from 1922 to 1972
16
Editor IM2011 17th International Meeting of Collectors of Historical Calculating Instruments
21
Simi Lyss, MD Pickett N2T Yellow Variant
22
Otto van Poelje French Calculating Disc - Montre Logarithmique1
23
Clark McCoy Clark's Corner
27
Bob Koppany Magnifiers
28
Tom Wyman Third Annual Oughtred Society Winter Meeting an Outstanding Event
32
Michael V. Konshak Developing the Georgia Iron Works Hydraulic Slide rule - Negotiating with Pickett & Eckel to Make a Special Slide Rule
33
Editor In Honor of William Oughtred, 1575-1660
38
Clark McCoy The K&E Hudson 8
39
Curtis A. Jones Use Your Slide Rule As a Cheap and Cheerful Wire Table
45
Panagiotis Venetsianos Mr. Milburne and the Serpentine Line
48
David Sweetman My First Electronic Slide Rule
53
Otto van Poelje Sharp EL-8, an Early Electronic Pocket Calculator(1970)1
56
Werner Rudowski In Memoriam - Dr. Brian B. Lloyd, CBE, MA, DSc
58
R. Bruce Sandie W&G: An Australian Slide Rule Manufacturer
59
Bob Koppany W and G Details - Models 432 and 476
64
Huib van Noort Demonstration Model of the Resulta Adder1
66
Bryan Purcell Kepler's Contribution to Logarithms and Their First Application in Astronomy
70

Vol. 20, No. 1, 2011
AuthorTitlePage No.
Walter Shawlee 2 Millions of Slide Rules Are Still Made Today, with Thousands of Variations
1
Rodger Shepherd Faber Slide Rule Manuals by Pickworth - A Postscript
4
Otto E. van Poelje Colorful Slide Rules
5
Clay Castleberry Stadia Slide Rules a Good Show
7
Peter Holland A. W. Faber Model 343 - System Baur. Another Unusual Slide Rule
9
Richard Smith Hughes and Clark McCoy Determing K and E Slide Rule Production Dates, 1922 to 1976: A Beginning
13
Editor IM2011 to Be held in USA at MIT Campus in Cambridge, MA
15
Bob Koppany Tie Tacks, Cuff Links, and Even Belt Buckles
16
Tom Wyman Oughtred Society 2010 Annual Meeting Featured Rare Items
18
Bryan Purcell The Fascinating Tale of the Fowler Magnum Pocket Slide Rule
19
David Sweetman Slide Chart Calculators
21
Stephan Weiss Slonimsky's Multiplying Device, an Imressive Example for Applied Mathematics
23
Werner H. Rudowski Two Historical Instruments for Constructing Columns
31
Hans-Joachim Volrath Nikolaus Goldmann's Architectural Rods
32
Gerhard G Wagner The "Instrumentum Architecturae" by Balthasar Neumann
38
William K. Robinson The Chinese Jiangshi Slide Rule
42
John Mosand Aristo 40128: The Largest Pocket Slide Rule?
44
Paul Ross Who Manufactured Post Slide Rules Before Hemmi? A Detective Story
45
David Rance The Oughtred Society Awards 2010 and 2011
49
Tom Wyman IM2010, An Outstanding Success
50
Paul J. Tarantolo Jr. Sub-Numbering on Keuffel & Esser Slide Rules
51
Gordon Roberts TGR Renascent Books
55
Bob Wolfson Building a Thacher
57
Thomas Wyman The Seldom-Seen K&E 4110 - A U.S. Naval Academy Slide Rule
63

Vol. 20, No. 2, 2011
AuthorTitlePage No.
Marc Thomas Introduction of Slide Rules in France
1
Timo Leipala On Old Russian Cylindrical and Circular Slide Rules
8
John Mosand Dr Peters' Slide Rule
15
W. Richard Davis Slide Rule Mystery - Who Designed the Pickett 110ES?
16
Richard Smith Hughes The Hemmi 301 and the Boonshaft and Fuchs Slide Rules
17
Nathan Zeldes An Unusual Form Factor that Failed to Make the Grade
26
Richard Smith Hughes Basic Slide Rule Operation for Scientists and Engineers
28
Otto E. van Poelje ARISTO 10082 Disc for Level Calculations in Surveying1
29
Thomas Wyman Description and Use of the Sliding Gunter in Navigation
33
Dieter von jezierski and Rodger Shepherd Thomas Kentish - His Times, His Works, and the Mysterious Man Himself
39
Tom Wyman All Attendees Enjoyed the Fourth Annual Winter Meeting
47
Colin Barnes Eels and a Joint Slide Rule
49
Peter Holland and Otto van Poelje Wang LOCI Calculators1 - Electronic Calculating by Logarithms
51
Peter Wutsdorff Some Comments Regarding the Faber-Castell Slide Rule Mathema 2/841
57
Bryan Purcell Astronomy, Logarithms, and the Slide Rule
60
Bob Koppany The Reed Hydraulic Slide Rule
64

Vol. 21, No. 1, 2012
AuthorTitlePage No.
Bob Koppany An editorial and farewell
1
W. Richard Smith Davis What to Do with My Slide Rule Collection - Suggestions and Alternatives
2
Jorge Fabregas Zazza, with Gonzalo Martin and Raimundo Cadenas ARC - Amigos de la Reglas de Calculo
6
Klaus Kuhn and Jerry McCarthy Prothaphaeresis and Johannes Werner
13
Gunter Kugel A Mystery Early 20th Century Slide Rule
17
Timo Leipala On Soviet Loglog Slide Rules
23
Editor The Robert K. Otnes Award for Scholarly Achievement
25
Ian Lodge Estimating Production Dates for Dietzgen Micromatic and Microglide Log Log Duplex Slide Rules
26
Gonzalo Martin The Introduction of Slide Rules in Spain
33
Otto E. van Poelje Book Review: Koch, Huxhold & Hannemann Der unbekannte Rechenstabhersteller aus Hamburg Author: Georg Schreiber, 2012
41
Editor Hall of Fame
43
William K. Robinson William Litell Everitt and His Circular Complex Hyperbolic Slide Rule
45
Editor Thomas Kentish article addendum
51
Dieter von Jezierski and David Rance George R. Stibitz's Film Slide Rule: A computing machine with logarithmic scales
52
Bob Koppany Thacher reproductions available
58
Thomas Wyman The K&E 4135 "Power Computer"
60
Thomas Wyman Oughtred Society Members of the United States Offered a Diverse Program in Hosting IM 2011
63
Clay Castleberry Aviation Novelty Slide Rules
67
Editor Advertisement
69

Vol. 21, No. 2, 2012
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor JOS Editorial Changes
1a
Kate Matthews The Oughtred Society Scholarship Program
1b
Alex Green and Jesse Gordon Slide Rules and WWII Bombing: A Personal History
2
Rodger Shepherd The Faber Manuals by Pickworth - Revised Chronology
6
Louis J. Gotlib Chemical Slide Rules: Their History and Use
8
David Sweetman Reactance and Associated Slide Charts
15
Clay Castleberry THE HOLDMAN SLIDE RULE
That is Not a Slide Rule
19
Thomas Wyman K&E's "Beatley I-Q Slide Rule"
20
Bob Wolfson Inside the Otis King Patent Calculator
22
Richard Smith Hughes Wichman Aristo P.A. 44
Determining True North from the Azimuth of Polaris
28
Marion Moon Alternative Trigonometric Solutions for Rietz-type Slide Rules
32
Richard Smith Hughes Two Celestial Navigation Slide Rules
K & E 4102 Surveyors Duplex and Dennert & Pape MHR1
37
J. Jezierski and D. Rance George R. Stibitz's Film Slide Rule
43
Otto E. van Poelje The REKA Rechenapparat and other Logarithmic Calculating Tablets1
44
Stephan Weiss Tens Carry Only by Geometry - Josef Funke's Adding Device1
49
Willy Robbrecht About a French Circular Slide Rule by Arnault-Paineau
52
Editor Call for Papers: IM 2013
56
David Rance and David Sweetman Book Reviews
57
Herb Gold Winter Meeting Attendees Bask in California Sunshine
58
Tom Wyman OS 2012 Annual Meeting
Held at the Computer Museum, Mountain View, California
60
Editor Members Survey 2012
Summary Report, April 22, 2012
61
Editor OS Scholarship Essays
65

Vol. 22, No. 1, 2013
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor From the Editor
1
Richard Smith Hughes A Layman's Guide to Chemical Slide Rules
2
Otto van Poelje Coastal Navigation by Station Pointer & the Snellius Resection
6
Clay Castleberry Kodak: A Nostalgic Slide Rule/Chart
14
Sean M. Stewart The Aristo System Czerny Slide Rule for Thermal Radiation Calculations
16
Thomas Wyman The Meyrat & Perdrizet (M&P) Pocket-Watch Calculator
25
Marc Thomas French Slide Rules Makers in the 19th Century From Gravet-Lenoir to Tavernier-Gravet: A Family Story
27
R. Bruce Sandie Browne Fuller-Type Cylindrical Slide Rules
29
Marion Moon Proportional Article Addendum
33
Panagiotis Venetsianos MARC: A French brand of pocket slide rules
34
Colin Barnes Separated by a Common Language
40
Charles R. Adams Isaac Newton's TONOMETER and COLORIMETER
41
Trevor Catlow Suggestions for Dating pre-1920 Faber-Castell Slide Rules: an Update
45
Jerry McCarthy Danish Pig-Feeding Slide Rule
48
Tom Wyman Pocket-Watch Calculators Produced by Scientific Publishing Company
51
Otto van Poelje A Puzzle for Readers
54
Jerry McCarthy IM 2012 Report
55
Paul McConnell Summary of IM2012
56
Editor George Keane receives 2012 Oughtred Society Award
57
Otto van Poelje Book Review
58
Martha Prince and Richard Davis 2013 OS Winter Meeting in Tucson
59

Vol. 22, No. 2, 2013
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor From the Editor
1
Thomas Wyman Soho Steam Engines The First Engineering Slide Rule and the Evolution of Excise Rules
2
Inge and Werner Rudowski The Lennep Brothers Engravers, Mathematicians, and Engineers
12
Editor Dieter von Jezierski 1927-2013
21a
Rodger Shepherd, Dieter von Jezierski, and Robert Koppany The Reticle Cursor - Obscure, Brilliant, and Doomed
21b
Tom Wyman and David Sweetman Book Review
26a
Detlef Zerfowski A 13 Years Project - An Adventure with Pain
26b
Alex Green and Jesse Gordon Transistors, Computocracy, and Jobs
30
Peter M. Hopp C.Eng. M.B.C.S. K&E Sperry Pocket-Watch Slide Rules
34
Marion Moon A Twenty First Century Slide Rule
41
Richard Smith Hughes Pickett C19-T Microwave Transmission Slide Rule
43
Otto E. van Poelje, Michel Morizet Two "Cadrans Logarithmiques" by Le Blond and Gattey For Old-to-Metric Unit Conversions in France (1799)
46
Stephan Weiss The Small Multiplication Table through the Centuries in Europe
54
Thomas Wyman Something for Everyone at the Annual Meeting of the Oughtred Society
59
Editor Winter Meeting Announcement
61a
Kate Matthews Scholarship Program Results
61b
Kathryn DeWitt The Nightmare Class
61c
Ori Mayer The Value of the Logarithm
62a
Bob DeCesaris Note from the President
62b
Clark McCoy Annual Financial Report for the Oughtred Society for 2012
64

Vol. 23, No. 1, 2014
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Note from the Editor
1
Otto van Poelje The Oughtred Society Awards
1
Bob de Cesaris Note from the President
2
Panagiotis Venetsianos UNIS - FRANCE: A Collective Trade Mark, Not a Manufacturer!
3
William K Robinson The B-47 and B-52 Bombers and the Slide Rule1
11
Richard Smith Hughes Moinot's Stadia Slide Rule (circa 1875)1
19
Editor Recommended Reading
25
Clay Castleberry Chisel Cursors Which Is Real And Which Is Faux?
26
Editor In Memoriam
27
Otto van Poelje Hewlett Packard Commemorative Calculators
27a
Robert J. Sauer A K and E "Station Pointer" with Apparent WWII Connections
30
Thomas Wyman The All-Paper Excise Rule by J. Bateman and S. Cock
32
Bob de Cesaris Volunteer Status
37
Thomas Wyman When Was The First Slide Rule Produced In The United States?
38
Tom Wyman WRITING - My Take
43
Bob Koppany and Dr. Charles Koppany CF Braun and Co. and the Pickett #12 Slide Rule
46
Edwin J. Chamberlain, PE The Flynn Universal Trigonometric Combination Semi-Circular Slide Rule - Protractor - Sine Table - Angle Formula Finder
51
David Rance New Exhibition Opens: "The Schuitema Collection"
56
Otto E. van Poelje Report of IM2013 in Berlin
60
Ed Chamberlain Northeast Oughtred Society Meeting Report
62
Tom Wyman Logarithmically Calibrated Drafting Scales
64

Vol. 23, No. 2, 2014
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert De Cesaris Request for Volunteers
3
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam Tom Wyman Slide Rule Historical Researcher, Collector, and Author; Oughtred Society Past President
4
Robert A. James The Deaths of the Slide Rule
6
William J. Wayne My Slide Rules
17
Richard Smith Hughes The Peruvian - German Slide Rule Connection: The ARISTO Nr 10065 System Grüter
19
Cliff Frohlich Design Considerations for the Analon Slide Rule
22
David Sweetman In Memoriam: Dr. Alex Green
28
Thomas Wyman Charles Hoare: His Book and Slide Rules
30
Rodger Shepherd Pencil Slide Rules: Part 1 - An Overview
33
Panagiotis Venetsianos A Brief Survey of Combined Slide Rules - Part 1
43
Stephan Weiss Golding's Horse Power Computer (1908)
51
Otto E. van Poelje Aspect Ratios of Pictures and Their Calculations by Slide Rule
55
Klaus Kühn Collectanea de Logarithmis
59
Dick Rose Oughtred Society Winter Meeting Report
60
Robert De Cesaris Oughtred Society Summer Meeting Report
62
Clark McCoy Annual Financial Report for the Oughtred Society for 2013
64

Vol. 24, No. 1, 2015
AuthorTitlePage No.
David Sweetman Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Otto van Poelje The Oughtred Society Awards for 2014
4
Editor In Memoriam
5
Rodger Shepherd Pencil Slide Rules: Part 2 - The Devco Series
6
Panagiotis Venetsianos A Brief Survey of Combined Slide Rules - Part 2
10
Peter Hopp C.Eng. M.B.C.S. K&E Sperry Calculators - An Update
19
Thomas Wyman Magnesium Slide Rules
20
Amy Ackenberg-Hastings and Peggy Aldrich Kidwell Slide Rules at the National Museum of American History
23
Richard Smith Hughes The Mauser-Federfix Helical Compression Spring Design Slide Rule1
28
Clay Castleberry Shadow Boxes Make Good Slide Rule Displays
33
David Sweetman and Nathan Zeldes Gilbert Small's Pocket Calculator
36
Richard Simpson, Honorary Secretary, BSHM A Joint Meeting of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) in Celebration of the 400th Annversary of the Publication of John Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio
41
Werner H Rudowski What happened to Hemmi?
45
David Sweetman Slide Rule Listing Conventions
47
David Sweetman Recommended Reading
52
Robert De Cesaris Request for Volunteers
52
Klaus Kuhn On the Calculation of Logarithms - Karl Kommerell's Method of Repeating Squares
53
Thomas Wyman Eugene Dietzgen's Multiplex Slide Rule
Another "Rosetta Stone Slide Rule"
61
Editor Annual Financial Report for the Oughtred Society for 2014
64

Vol. 24, No. 2, 2015
AuthorTitlePage No.
David Sweetman Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Kate Matthews Education and Outreach Initiatives in the Coming Year
4
Editor In Memoriam: Bennie Wayne Tschoerner (1941 - 2014)
4a
Werner H. Rudowski Variants of Soho Slide Rules
6
Rodger Shepherd Pencil Slide Rules: Part 3 - The Schauer Scale Revisited
14
Jose Gabriel Fernandez Comments to Slide Rule Scale Listing Conventions
18
Nathan Zeldes The EngPen: An Unusual Pencil Slide Rule
20
Richard Smith Hughes A Chinese Probability Slide Rule: Part 1
23
Rodger Shepherd Pencil Slide Rules: Part 4 - The Nicolet and the Monroe in Context
28
Richard Smith Hughes Keuffel & Esser Cooke Radio, 4139/68-1460: Variants from 1940 to the End of Production (prior to 1972)
36
David Sweetman Article Errata
39
Editor Collectanea de Logarithmis: For Sale on DVD
41
Bryan Purcell Diabetic Slide Rule
42
Peter Hopp Recommended Reading: The Inquisitive Engineer
47
Robert J. Sauer Three Addenda to Two Recent JOS Articles
49
Clark McCoy The Origins of the K&E "Radio" Rule
51
Clark McCoy Dating K&E Slide Rules
56
W. Richard Davis How to Save a Warped Slide Rule
62
Editor United Kingdom Slide Rule Circle
64

Vol. 25, No. 1, 2016
AuthorTitlePage No.
Otto van Poelje The Oughtred Society Awards
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert De Cesaris and Kate Matthews Highlights of IM 2015
3
Gary Flom Slide Rule Problems: Roots and Powers on C and D Scales
6
David Lee Ingram The Ross MERIDI-O-GRAPH for Surveying
7
Edwin J. Chamberlain The Ross Precision Computer
10
W. Richard Davis The Ross Rapid Computer
23
Rodger Shepherd Obituary
27
W. Richard Davis The Ross Student Rapid Computer
28
Edwin J. Chamberlain A Biography of Louis Ross
29
Edwin J. Chamberlain and W. Richard Davis The Ross Rapid Computer/Dempster RotaRule Mystery!
36
Rodger Shepherd Pencil Slide Rules - Part 5: The Digital Transition
43
Paul McConnell The Gerber Derivimeter
52
Phil Radley New to Slide Rules in the 21st Century
55
Nicola Marras IM 2016
61
David Sweetman Recommended Reading
62
Simon A.M. van der Salm Letter to the Editor
63

Vol. 25, No. 2, 2016
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Notes from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Peter Hopp and Rod Lovett In Memoriam
Colin A. Barnes
19 February 1940 - 8 April 2016
6
Jose Gabriel Fernandez Slide Rules "Made in Spain"
7
Richard Smith Hughes The Highest Class Electrical Engineer's 'Universal' Duplex Slide
Rule with Patent Vector and Hyperbolic Scales, 20 inches
23
David M Riches More on Sterling Slide Adders
28
Detlef Zerfowski The Worldwide Largest Bibliography Database on the History
of Mechanical Computing Devices Online!
32
Roger V. Dollarhide A Poor Man's Collection
35
Ian Lodge Maurice Damien Aluminium Slide Rules
37
Marc Thomas A Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rule
Especially Made for the British Market
47
Nathan Zeldes Elisha Kally's Water Flow Calculator
51
Ted Hume Farewell from the Hemmi Roids
55
Stephan Weiss Crompton - Gallagher: Boiler Efficiency Calculator (1919)
56
Editor Collectanea de Logarithmis
64

Vol. 26, No. 1, 2017
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Otto van Poelje The Oughtred Society Awards for 2016
4
David Sweetman A Brief Introduction to Statistical Quality Control
5
David Sweetman The "Delco-Remy" S. Q. C. LATOR
7
David Sweetman The "GE" Quality Control Slide Rule
9
Simon A.M. van der Salm The Pickett N-525 StatRule Statistical Scales
11
Simon A.M. van der Salm The Shanghai SPC Slide Rule
23
David Sweetman The Mear's Quality Control and Probability Calculator
32
David Sweetman The QC Calc
34
Simon A. M. van der Salm The Limpert Board
A Wonderful Application of Logarithmical Scales
38
Valery V. Shilov, Sergey A. Silantiev Jan Jozef Baranowski: Life and Machines
50
Marion Moon Developing Slide Rule Calibration Equations for Conventional Slide Rules
55
Terry Kirkpatrick A Puzzle
58
David Sweetman Book Review: The Digital Slide Rule
59
David Sweetman Book Review: Pencil Slide Rules
60
David Sweetman Book Review: Napier 400
61
Steven Deckelman Book Review: Meilensteine der Rechentechnik
62

Vol. 26, No. 2, 2017
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Notes from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Sarah McFarland In Memoriam: David McFarland
6
Jose Gabriel Fernandez The IGN Logarithmic Circle
7
Stephan Weiss The Methodology of Teaching a Logarithmic Slide Rule in Historical Sequence
24
W. Richard Davis Norma Gambrinus Circular Slide Rule
29
Peter Alfeld The Slide Rule Explorer
35
Philip Stanley Unusual Cursor Screws
37
Roger V. Dollarhide A Poor Man's Collection - Part 2
39
Roger V. Dollarhide How to Photograph Slide Rules - The Easy Way
42
Donald W. Walker Notes on the Choice and Use of a Flatbed Scanner for Scanning Slide Rules
44
Marc Thomas Additional Biographical Elements on Tavernier and the Lenoirs
49
T.P.Hazard The Best Slide Rule
53
T.P.Hazard Determining Algebraic Expressions by Use of a Slide Rule
58

Vol. 27, No. 1, 2018
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Otto van Poelje The Oughtred Society Awards for 2017
4
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam: Ed Chamberlain
5
Panagiotis Venetsianos All Things Come To Those Who Can Wait
A Cold Case Solved After Almost Four Centuries?
6
Michael Gibson Which Slide Rule Really Went Aboard Apollo?
11
Istvan Szalkai General Two-Variable Functions on the Slide Rule
14
Ace Hoffman A Digital Slide Rule
19
Jose Fernandez Slide Rule Patents in Spain 2: 1954-1982
25
Joseph Herning Mathematical Reflections on the Slide Rule
38
Marion Moon Addendum to ST or SRT IM 2015 Paper
44
Bob Koppany After the Slide Rule Calculation is Complete
45
Jacques Perregaux Letter to the Editor
50
Rodger Shepherd The PEN-CU-LATOR: A Truly Unique Calculator Pen
51
David Rance Wrong Way Up!
Slide Rule Instruction Aids
53

Vol. 27, No. 2, 2018
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Note from the Editor
1
Otto van Poelje Media Review
1a
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Richard Davis In Memoriam: William Keith Robinson
4
Riki Nakamoto Robert De Cesaris Richard Davis Oughtred Society 2018 Annual Meeting Report
5
Jim Bready Colossus: the 10,000 Inch Slide Rule
7
Cliff Frohlich The Hemmi 160 Statistical Slide Rule - A Description and A Mystery
17
Istvan Szalkai Make Your Own Slide Rule
Only a Monitor and Scissors Are Needed
22
Herbert Bruderer Two Curta-Based Parallel Calculators
27
Herbert Bruderer Rare Logarithmic Circular SlideRule Discovered: A Special Calculator for Mass Multiplications and Divisions
30
Jim Bready A Hemmi of Two Woods
33
Richard Smith Hughes The Boonshaft and Fuchs Direct Reading Frequency Response Slide Rule Revisited
34
Bennett McAllister and Frank Spors Physiologic Analogues to the Slide Rule with Applications in Predictive Analysis and Assessment of Human Vision
44
Istvan Szalkai and Ace Hoffman Constructing and Understanding New and Old Scales
51
Stephan Weiss Gauge Points and their Advantages
58

Vol. 28, No. 1, 2019
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Notes from the Editor
1
Rodger Shepherd Editorial Note:Accuracy vs. Precision
1a
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam, Robert K. Otnes
4
David Sweetman Book Review
7
David Sweetman Book Review
8
Editor Announcement of International Meeting IM2019 in the Netherlands
9
Otto van Poelje The Oughtred Society Awards for 2018
10
Editor Richardson Pantocrat
11
Richard Smith Hughes Black Body Radiation Slide Rules
12
W. Richard Davis Blundell Harling F5100 - Mystery Solved
23
Ray Chandos The Making of the Pickett Model 17 Blackbody Radiation Slide Rule
26
Editor Past Issues of The Journal of the Oughtred Society
34
Rodger Shepherd The CALCU-PEN CP-01
35
Nathan Zeldes Kaufmann's Posographe
36
Paul McConnell While in Cleveland...
44
Jose Fernandez Long-Scale Slide Rules, from Words to Scalest
45
Editor Annual Financial Report for the Oughtred Society for 2018
64

Vol. 28, No. 2, 2019
AuthorTitlePage No.
Editor Note from the Editor
1
Phil Stanley Letter to the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Hans Kordetzky In Memoriam - Heinz Joss
4
Ronald van Riet In Memoriam - Daniel Toussaint
5
Stephan Weiss The Design of a Steam Engine by Means of the Soho Slide Rule
6
W. Richard Davis Radium Dosage Calculator, A Secret Ruse?
12
Jose Fernandez SLIDE RULE PATENTS IN SPAIN 1864-1953
16
Bob Schwartz Cursor Spring Repair
24
Paul M. McConnell A Case of Green
27
Richard Smith Hughes The Ross Precision Computer, Part 2
31
W. Richard Davis SPECTRO-RULE
A Spectrometer User's Friend
41
James S. Wolper Slide Rules and the Modern Calculus Student
48
Bob Schwartz and Vince Brach Restoration of Moldy Leather Cases
50
David Lee Ingram CIRCULAR MAPPING SLIDE RULE
51
Marc Thomas Gravet's Patent Application for the Mannheim Slide Rule (1851)
55

Vol. 29, No. 1, 2020
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
David Rance and Peter Hopp In Memoriam, Francis Wells
3
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam, Rodger Shepherd
4
Otto van Poelje New Book Announcement: ALRO Catalogue
6
Robert De Cesaris IM2020 Cancellation/IM2020 Experimental Virtaul Meeting Announcement
7
Jose Fernandez Ollero: The Man and His Slide Rule
8
Cliff Frohlich The Hemmi 405 Cement Composition Slide Rule
18
Louis J. Gotlib Collecting Slide Rules and Reading Encyclopedic Novels - Down the Rabbit Hole We Go
25
Richard Smith Hughes The Sun Hemmi "Electronic" Pocket Slide Rule
34
Jim Bready Unsuccessful Successful Slide Rules
38
Herbert Bruderer Discovery of Previously Unknown Replicas of Historical Calculting Machines Manufactured by Roberto Guatelli
42
Istvain Szalkai On the General Shape of Scales on Slide Rules
48
Richard Juday Students and the Slide Rule
59
Jim Bready The Slide Rule as an Information Storage Device
63

Vol. 29, No. 2, 2020
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam, Conrad Schure
4
Alan Gluchoff Letters to the Editor
6
Thomas van der Zijden IM 2019 ''Calculators on the Beach''
in Scheveningen/The Hague
7
Jim Bready Book Review
9
Editor Announcement: Oughtred Society 2021 Annual Meeting
11
Editor New Book Announcement
11
Simon A.M. van der Salm The Dundee Coronary Risk-Disk
12
Valery V. Shilov, Sergey A. Silantiev, and Timo Leipala Unknown Calculating Device of a Forgotten Inventor
29
Stephan Weiss The Expansion Steam Engine and the Hyperbolic Logarithm from Farey to Dixon
35
Robert A. James Future Reckoning:
Calculating Devices in the Golden Age of Science Fiction
41
Detlef Zerfowski,Susanne Herden Coorapid - A Forgotten 22.6 kg Heavy Slide Rule for Coordinate Transformations
47
Nathan Zeldes Vizzini's Calculating Table
56
Richard Smith Hughes The Faber-Castell 2/84N Mathema ''Universal Slide Rule'':
The End of My Mythic Image
62

Vol. 30, No. 1, 2021
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Note from the Editor
1
Robert de Cesaris Note from the President
2
David Sweetman and Marc-Yvon Comeau Book Review
4
Greg Miller and Tom Martin Reducing Proof: Farmar's Spirit Rule and Some Antecedents
5
Greg Miller Empirical Functions of Two Variables, and Dicas's Hydrometer Correction
18
John H. Runnels A Smoking Gun: The Gilson-Richardson Connection
25
Paul McConnell A Bulky Slide Rule
29
Jose Fernandez Yamayo Measuring Slide Rule
32
John B. Heywood Relating Slide Rule Accuracy to Log Scale Length
40
Phil Rodley Fun with Slide Rules
43
Dmitry Zlatopolski Computing Devices by Henri Genaille
49
Jim Joseph Dowmetal and Pickett Slide Rules
53
Louis J. Gotlib The Graphic pH Calculator
58
Clark McCoy Annual Financial Report of the Oughtred Society for 2020
64

Vol. 30, No. 2, 2021
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Note from the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert de Cesaris In Memoriam, Clay Castleberry
4
Editor Letters to the Editor
6
Robert G. De Cesaris A Fuller Calculator Compendium: Experimental Models, Prototypes, Production Transitions, and Uncommon Examples
8
Paul M. McConnell A Flea Market Surprise
53
Dmitry Zlatopolski Carl Schonbichler's Multiplication Device
54
Nathan Zeldes Don't Mess With Celluloid!
58
Mike Syphers A Transitional K&E 4092-3
63

Vol. 31, No. 1, 2022
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Note From the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam, David Sweetman
4
Editor Letters to the Editor
7
John H. Runnels Gilson Slide Rules: An Appreciation
9
Stefan Heimann The Mather & Platt Slide Rule for Sprinklers in Fire Protection
28
Richard Smith Hughes Business and Finance Slide Rules, Part 1
32
Richard Smith Hughes Business and Finance Slide Rules: Part 2 Two Pickett Business Slide Rules
41
Paul M. McConnell The Winslow Strength Computing Slide Rule
48
Istvan Szalkai All Scales xa on One Slide Rule
56
Clark McCoy Annual Financial Report for the Oughtred Society for 2021
64

Vol. 31, No. 2, 2022
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Notes From the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Jim Bready and Patrik Sivander Book Review
4
Jose G. Fernandez Aristo 6714 Three-Drum Calculator
5
David Sweetman Seeing the Light
18
David Rance Keeping in Rhythm
20
Jim Bready Mystery Slide Rules
28
Edward S. Popko The Lindbergh-Weems Second-Setting Pilot's Watch
37
Valery V. Shilov, Sergey A. Silantiev Victor Vogel: New Facts and Forgotten Invention
52
Mike Syphers An Early Home-Made Spring Calculation Slide Rule
57
Paul M. McConnell A Dietzgen Slide Rule
61
Jim Bready The Ross Vest-Pocket Slide Rule
63

Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Note From the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam, Bob Koppany
4
Peter Hopp In Memoriam, Tom Martin
6
John H. Runnels Slide Rules in the Courtroom: K&E v. Pickett
8
Hana Beswick-Jones, Amy J Hopper, Angus M Brown Peter Mark Roget: Polymath Extraordinaire
34
Jim Bready The "Never Off The Dial" Circular Slide Rule
40
Steven Lubar Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate:
A Cultural History of the Punch Card
42
Eric Rinehart Pickett United States Air Force Aerial Photography Slide Rules
55
Paul M. McConnell Yes, It is Not a Slide Rule
62
Clark McCoy Annual Financial Report for the Oughtred Society for 2022
64

Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023
AuthorTitlePage No.
Jim Bready Notes From the Editor
1
Robert De Cesaris Note from the President
2
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam, Billy Kerr
4
Robert De Cesaris In Memoriam, Walter Shawlee II
6
Klaus Kuhn Calculating with Tones - Sector Musicalis and Other Devices
7
Paul J. Tarantolo Jr. Prototype K&E Patent Adjustable Mannheim Slide Rule
26
Jerry McCarthy The Unique 'Pioneer' Long Scale Rule
32
Jose G. Fernandez R. Fontenla Slide Rule for Navigation
47
Nathan Zeldes The Roulette 'X' Circular Slide Rule
59



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