The slide rule
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- a practical manual
Charles N. (Charles Newton) Pickworth
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH EDITION.3. CONTENTS.4. INTRODUCTORY.5. THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SLIDE RULE.6. NOTATION BY POWERS OF 10.7. THE MECHANICAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SLIDE RULE.8. THE PRIMITIVE SLIDE RULE.9. THE MODERN SLIDE RULE.10. THE NOTATION OF THE SLIDE RULE.11. THE CURSOR OR RUNNER.12. MULTIPLICATION.13. DIVISION.14. THE USE OF THE UPPER SCALES FOR MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION.15. RECIPROCALS.16. CONTINUED MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION.17. MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION WITH THE SLIDE INVERTED.18. PROPORTION.19. OTHER METHODS OF OBTAINING POWERS AND ROOTS.20. TRIGONOMETRICAL APPLICATIONS21. THE SOLUTION OF RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLES.22. THE SOLUTION OF OBLIQUE-ANGLED TRIANGLES.23. CIRCULAR CALCULATORS.24. APPENDIX.