Online Slide Rule!
Online Slide Rule!
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RE: Online Slide Rule!
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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RE: Online Slide Rule!
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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RE: Online Slide Rule!
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Online Slide Rule!
But then again, I competed in slide rule and science back in high school, and only got my first calculator after ME II as a college sophomore (ME 213 was dynamics. Statics was ME 112.)
RE: Online Slide Rule!
That model was my constant companion for many years. My uncle had given me a Post Versalog which was a superb instrument, but I found it's blue and red lines on a white background to be hopelessly distracting. My father had a very tired slide rule, and he loved the Versalog. He disliked the yellow background of the Pickett, so we made a deal. He bought me a Pickett that I liked, and I gave him the Versalog. If I remember correctly, the Versalog was slightly more expensive at the time. It was a bargain that was mutually satisfactory for many years.
An important factor that is easily lost in our modern digital computer based world is the limited accuracy of the data that we normally use. Because of instrument limitations and imperfections, we seldom work with data that is truly accurate beyond two or three significant digits. In our modern digital world, it is so very easy to forget the limited accuracy of the underlying data with which we are normally making our calculations. That slide rule was a constant reminder of our inherent limitations, and it forced a constant respect for those limitations.
Valuable advice from a professor many years ago: First, design for graceful failure. Everything we build will eventually fail, so we must strive to avoid injuries or secondary damage when that failure occurs. Only then can practicality and economics be properly considered.
RE: Online Slide Rule!
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Online Slide Rule!
RE: Online Slide Rule!