1 | The slide rule function is used primarily in aviator watches. | |
2 | One handy example of how classroom practices can change is the replacement of the slide rule by the pocket calculator. | |
3 | William Oughtred, English mathematician who invented the slide rule in 1622, died at Albury in Surrey. | |
4 | In the era of slide rules and drafting tables, wind tunnels were even more valuable for discovering bugs in an aircraft design. | |
5 | Just as the HP-35 calculator replaced the manual slide rule forever, inkjet technology spelled the end for the noisy dot-matrix printer. |