"Slide rule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the 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 300 miles ...
— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman
... 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
... working his slide rule) Upwards of eight hundred thousand, I should say. I can provide you with an exact figure if ...
— If at First You Don't... • John Brudy
... And the Slide Rule; with the Theory of Trigonometry and Logarithms, including Practical Geometry, Surveying, Measuring of Timber, Cask and Malt Gauging, Heights, and Distances. By THOMAS KENTISH. In one volume, ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose
... 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 |
