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Other slide rule sites The potential uses of slide rules go far beyond those described on this site. The potential can be extended in two ways:
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| Description | Link |
| Slide rule forum - this site has many previous messages describing how to use different types of rules. Since January 2001 operated under the aegis of Yahoo. | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sliderule/messages |
| Includes a searchable data base of ebay slide rule places. Has images of about 130 rules. For each rule there is a large thumbnail. Even larger and more detailed images can be seen by clicking on the thumbnail. | http://sliderules.lovett.com/ |
| Whilst this is a commercial site it also has a lot of useful information including comprehensive archives of many companies. | http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html |
| Includes some interesting and well presented 18th and 19th century slide rule texts. | http://homepages.tesco.net/~pro/index.html |
| A site which combines slide rules with typewriters! Includes some in depth articles by the site owner. | http://hometown.aol.com/usra482b/index.html |
| This site is very strong on the history of slide rules. | http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/Sliderules/sliderules.html |
| A site about slide rules with many external links. | http://www.geocities.com/kungyiji/srule.htm |
| Devoted to Otis King calculators with a good background | http://www.svpal.org/~dickel/OK/OtisKing.html |
| Nicely put together with an interesting section showing the evolution of a K&E model. Also has a useful section on reviews of slide rule books both old and new. | http://www.sliderule.ca |
| A French slide rule site. | http://www.inforsud.fr/mery/Regle.htm |
| Another French site with instructions for use and some interesting rules. | http://perso.club-internet.fr/orochoir/Machine/regle_ca.htm |
| A collector's page with some interesting rules | http://weblab.research.att.com/~davek/slide/ |
Looks at the mathematics behind slide rules. |
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5136/slide.html |
| This slide rule group started in April 2000 under the auspices of Yahoo. It has not developed as much might have been hoped. It is unmoderated so messages appear instantly. | http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/slideruleforum |
| A comprehensive site dedicated (almost entirely) to Hemmi slide rules with background information on the company. | http://www.lise.jp/sliderules/index.html |
| Dave's slide rules - includes a slide rule primer. | http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/slide/index.html |
| Todd Tolhurst's slide rule site - includes images of slide rules and forthright political opinions. | http://www.toddtolhurst.com/sliderules/ |
| Tom Bullock's slide rule site - with a few unusual rules including a nuclear bomb effects computer. | http://www.tbullock.com/sliderule.html |
| John Current's site - his personal collection of about 50 slide rules | http://home.att.net/~jcurrent/srule.htm |
| Not a very large site - but what it does, it does well. | http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~greg/calculators/sliderule/index.htm |
| Darren Samphier's (Australian) site with about 60 rules. | http://www.samphier.com/ |
| At present a small site but in Italian, German, French, Spanish, English and (under preparation) Japanese. | http://www.giovannipastore.it/ |
| This site has a lot of images of early (19th) century US rules described as "2 foot 2 fold rules with Gunters slides". This is not easy to use but is worth a visit. | http://home.att.net/~seven0610.2041/19thcmkr.htm |