JOURNAL OF THE OUGHTRED SOCIETY CONTENTS 1991 - 2002 Vol. 0 No. 0 October 1991 Table of Contents Editorial The June Meeting in Oakland Proposed Projects Saul Moscowitz - In Memoriam The Otis King Slide Rule The Charpentier Calculator "Buro-Antik" Auction in Koln, April 1991 Information Letters Vol.1 No. 1 February 1992 Table of Contents Editorial Wanted: Slide Rule Articles Pickett Metal Slide Rules George Washington Richardson's Direct Reading Slide Rules The Gilson Slide Rule Company Small Wonder Pickett's "Eye-Saver Yellow" Log-Log Scales "Buro-Antik" Auction in Koln, November 1991 Slide Rule Reviews Information Letters Vol.1 No. 2 August 1992 Table of Contents Editorial The June 1992 Meeting Oughtred Society Principals Comments on Slide Rule Nomenclature Slide Rule Pencils Gilson Slide Rules Revisited The Hart Equationar The SMALL Calculator - Part II Slide Rule Cross Sections Chronology of Japanese Slide Rules How I Do It The Market Report Slide Rule Reviews Information Letters Vol. 2 No. 1 March 1993 Table of Contents Editorial The June 1993 Meeting Photographic Standards Cajori and Scanning The Keuffel & Esser Issue W.L.E. Keuffel The Jack Burton Collection The K&E Braille Slide Rule Thacher Notes The K&E 4110 Slide Rule The Conrad Schure Collection Keuffel & Esser Patents How I Do It The Runner Runner, Cursor or Indicator? K&E Issue - Concluding Thoughts The Market Report Letters Vol. 2 No. 2 October 1993 Table of Contents The June 1993 Meeting The Reitz-System and Max Reitz The End of the Aristo Slide Rules: a Case Study Richard A. Gilson German Patents and the Columbia An Error on the Slide Rule for 50 Years? How I Do It The ALRO Circular Slide Rule The Market Report Reviews Vol. 3 No. 1 March 1994 Table of Contents Editorial and the June 1994 Meeting Dennert & Pape and Keuffel & Esser How I Do It Palmer's Computing Scale The "Cooper" 100-Inch Slide Rule The Scofield-Thacher Slide Rule A Guided Tour of an 18th Century Carpenter's Rule Letters The Market Report Paper Vol. 3 No. 2 September 1994 Table of Contents Editorial The March 1994 Meeting in Seattle The June 1994 Meeting in Oakland Analysis of the Survey Napier and the Invention of Logarithms Some Notes on the History and Use of Gunter's Rule Bonnycastle on Gauging Update on D&P and K&E Slide Rules Figures on the Insert Paper Spirit Rules Thacher Slide Rule Production Special Purpose Slide Rules Short Subjects: The Irony of it All When is a Slide Rule Not a Slide Rule? Marks on Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rules Pickett Metal Slide Rules - A Brief Update The Engineer's Rule The Market Report Book Reviews Vol. 4 No. 1 March 1995 Table of Contents Editorial and General Information Palmer's Computing Scale - Revisited Log Log Scales - Revisited The A.W. Faber-Castell Columbus System Translations of the Instructions for the Columbus Branan's Rule - An Undervalued Slide Rule George Ward and The Gauger's Practice Schact & Westrich Calculator Interesting Variations in the First Metal Pickett Logomat Advertising Articles Two Noble Attempts to Improve the Slide Rule an Example of Napierian Logarithms The Appoullot Slide Rule Letters Book Reviews Travel and the Market Report Vol.4 No.2 October 1995 Table of Contents Editorial The June Meeting in Oakland and the September Meeting in New Jersey Oral Histories Nystrom's Calculator A Page from the 1883 Keuffel & Esser Catalog Fowler & Company Model Designations of Modern Era K&E Slide Rules Joshua Routledge How Briggs Computed Logarithms Colby's Slide Rule Figures on the Insert Translation of an Article on F. Blanc's Slide Rule Otis-King Update K&E Student's and Beginner's Slide Rules Special Slide rules of Faber-Castell The Customs and Excise Gauging Slide Rule Departments Letters Book Reviews The Market Report Vol. 5 No. 1 March 1996 Table of Contents Editorial The November Meeting in Utrecht The Thomoson Log-Log Slide Rule Log-Log Slide Rule of Blanc - Continued Gurley Slide Rule A Beer Slide Rule The Centerfold The Blundell Vector Slide Rule A Burton Special A Geological Slide Rule Wollaston Chemical Slide Rule Faber-Castell Combination Rules Update of Known Thacher and Fuller Rules Comment on the Fuller Listings Departments Explanation of the Back Cover Sketch Index, 1991 - 1995 Vol.5 No. 2 October 1996 Table of Contents Editorial and News Introduction to the Issue The June Meeting in Oakland Second International Meeting Scheduled meetings and shows Payment for European Members The Dietzgen Company Dietzgen History Some Distinctive Features of Dietzgen Slide Rules Dietzgen Patents, Runners and Log-Log Scales Dietzgen Calculation Devices Concluding Remarks on Dietzgen Slide Rules The Pilot Ballon Slide Rule Solving the Keuffel & Esser Catalog Problem Illustrations in the Centerfold Lawrence Engineering Service Otis-King - Conclusions? Slide Rule Hunting in Ireland IWAMATIC 1650 and the Votsch-variant The Thomas Dixon Engineer's Slide Rule A Visit to the Deuttches Museum Wollaston's Equivalents Slide Rule Letters The Internet Publications of Interest Camera Technology The Market Report Vol.6 No. 1 March 1997 Table of Contents The Oughtred Society Non-Profit Status Numeracy The June Meeting in Palo Alto The September Meeting in Stein Scanning the Issue DENNERT & PAPE and ARISTO Slide Rules T.S. Emblem Series - Oral Histories The Astronomical Scales of Oughtred's Calculator K&E Instruction Manuals Two Scarce K&E Rules A Circular Slide Rule in the Shape of a Ring Some Specialty Slide Rules A K&E Slide Rule for Planer Work The Voith Slide Rule British Thornton Unique Slide Rules A Five-Piece Combination Gauging Rod and Slide Rule Slide Rule Watches Slide Rule Photographs Departments Letters Book Reviews Vol. 6 No. 2 Fall 1997 Table of Contents The Oughtred Society Tax-Exempt Status The June Meeting in Palo Alto The September Meeting in Stein Further Notes on the Operation of Gunter's Rule Electrical Wireman's Combined Gage and Calculator The RHS Calculator William Cox on the Sector Elmer A. Sperry and His Calculator The Soho Rule Measuring the Volume of Logs: The Timber Contenting Slide Rule U.S. Army Air Corpts Aerial Dead Reckoning Computer Type E-6B Dating Otis-King Slide Rules Fuller's Telegraph Computer The Roylance Electrical Slide Rule Joseph Halden & Co. Short Articles Did the Great War leave Its Mark on Slide Rules Rotating Mechanism for Classroom Instructional Slide Rules The Richardson-Gilson Connection The System Wern Slide Rule Departments Book Reviews The American Scientific Instrument Market Letters The Market Report Vol. 7 No. 1 Spring, 1998 Table of Contents The Oughtred Society Meetings The Dempster RotaRule Notes on Frederick Post Slide Rules Napier and the Computation of Logarithms Blundell Harling The Mechanical Engineer Some Facts and Impressions on Chinese Slide Rules Slide Rules of the Stanley Rule & Level Company Dating of the Otis King Slide Rule Decimal Point Location Methods Analysis of a Gilson Circular Slide Rule A Golden Age 4071T by Keuffel & Esser Letters A Note to Authors Vol. 7 No. 2 Fall, 1998 Table of Contents The Oughtred Society and the Fall Issue Meetings Oughtred on Gauging Two Early Slide Rules Some Notes on Rules from the Former Soviet Union 1998 Membership Survey of Pocket Watch Type Rules Interview with Jack Burton and Gordon Anthony Slide Rules by Molter Lalanne's Glass Slide Rule and an Associated Instruction Book American Slide Rule Books Before 1890 The W.H. Harling, Ltd. Company A Brief History of the W.H. Harling Ltd. Company Crafting Slide Rules by Hand - An Historical Note Common Graduation and Early U.S. Slide Rules Fowler's Pocket Watch Type Calculators Short Topics and Letters An Introduction to Articles on Dutch Contributions to Slide Rule History in the 20th Century No.1 - K. Kaspar and His SEwage Rule The Slide Rule in College The Marketplace European Organization of Slide Rule Collectors A Note to Authors The Back Cover Vol. 8 No. 1 Spring 1999 Table of Contents The Spring Issue Meetings Correction The Molter Slide Rule Is "Gauging" an Archaic Practice? More on the Capacity of Barrels The French Lalanne Glass Slide Rules Picket & Eckel Slide Rule Time Line Letters Reviews The Whythe Complex Slide Rule in Fuller Style An Interview with Jack Burton and Gordon Anthony: End of the Slide rule Era at Keuffel & Esser Part II Long-Scale Slide Rules Faber-Castell Model Numbers Adolph Keuffel and the Later K&E Slide Rules Articles on Dutch Contributions to Slide Rule History in the 20th Century - No. 2 F.J. Vaes The "Vade Mecum Slide Rule" designed expressly for the timber industry by George Bousfield Direct Reading Frequency Response Slide Rule The Market Place Vol. 8 No. 2 Fall 1999 Table of Contents Oughtred Society Meetings George Fuller and His Slide Rule Slide Rule Accuracy The Gunter Rule Robertson's Slide Rule with Runner - 1788 The Slide Rule in France - 1815 The Picket and Eckel Slide rule of 1943 Articles on Dutch contributions to Slide Rule History in the 20th Century - No. 3, R.E.P. Wolthekker An Unusual Russian Machinist's Rule An Interview with Jack Burton and Gordon Anthony - Part III Slide Rules for Calculating Radiographic Exposure An Interesting Fowler Textile Calculator Cattle Gauge Slide Rules The Number e Pocket-Watch Slide Rules Slide Rule Competition in Texas High Schools An Article from the Past on Log-Log Slide Rules How to Make Pictures of Slide Rules with a Digital Camera More on the Molter Slide Rule Arithmographe par M. Gattey Vol. 9 No.1 Spring 2000 Table of Contents Mid-America "Kring" Stages Another Successful Meeting Oughtred Society Meetings A.W. Faber Castel Rules - The Relationship Between Date of Manufacture and Indication of Brand Name, Model Number and Model Name On Mandrels and Electroforms - The Making of Molded Slide Rules at the Keuffel & Esser Co. The Market Report What is It? A Challenge to Oughtred Society Members Slide Rules and Slide Rule Devices A Letter Regarding the Molter Slide Rule Operations Analysis and the 20th AF Slide Rules of WWII Two "Log-Spiral" Devices The Back Light Screen Projection Slide Rule Unique Use for Slide Rule as Advertisement The Robinson Calculator Errors in Manufacturing of the Pickett C19 Collins Radio Microwave Slide Rule Two Unusual Types of Trigonometric Scales Modeling Slide Rule Standard Deviation A Qualitative Analysis on a Quantitative Device Wages Calculating Machine A Circular Slide Rule to Calculate Production Data for Safety Matches Mystery Pocket-Watch Slide Rules Gilson Slide Rules - Part I - The Small Rules Index 1995-1999 Vol. 9 No.2 Fall 2000 Table of Contents Hans Dennert (1926-2000) 6th International Meeting A Resounding Success Oughtred Society Meetings in 2001 Binding Copies of the JOS Symposium in Griefswald in September, 2000 And One Thing Led to Another... Market Report The Oughtred Society Website The Beginning Collector A Poor Man's Guide to Searching for Slide Rules in England Slide Rules for Underwater Activity Thousands of Rules and Millions of Bytes Later The Artillery Graphical Firing Table: A Description Ivory, Bone or Plastic Book Reviews Letters A Tablet Slide Rule by Julius Billeter, Zurich The Sun Hemmi System of of Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Scales Taylor, Taylorism and Time Machine Slide Rules Slide rules of the Frederick Post Company Gilson Slide Rules-Part II Wages Calculating Machine Thoughts on Japan, Deming, Quality and the Statistical Quality Control Slide Rule Relay/Richo Slide Rules Vol. 10 No. 1 Spring 2001 Table of Contents Message from the President New on the OS Website Faber Slide Rule Manuals by Pickworth Pickett from a Manufacturing Perspective A Slide Rule for Wire Drawing Calculations Keuffel \& Esser --- 1880 to 1899 The ``Duplex" Slide Rule Sikes's Hydrometer and Related Slide Rules The Load Adjuster... An Article from 1815 on a Circular Slide Rule Letters Gunter Kugel Peter Abrahams Dennis Maack Two German Wages Calculating Machines Norbert Wiener and the Slide Rule... Financial Slide Rules Vol. 10 No. 2 Fall 2001 Table of Contents Tenth Anniversary Issue Kilderkins, Hogsheads & Dipping Rods "Wages Calculators" or Rim Slide Rules? The Faber-Castell Taschenrechner (TR) Mathematics on the Moon - The "Apollo" Pickett Handicapping Derby Thoroughbreds John Suxspeach's Catholic Organon The Borden and Sperry Bombsights Wittgenstein and His Calculating Devices Description of Two Unmarked Slide Rules The 30th Edition of the Keuffel & Esser Catalogue The K&E Universal Slide Rule The Keuffel & Esser Triangular Slide Rule The Evolution of the 4092 Numeracy and the Slide Rule 11th Annual Oughtred Society Meeting The Sheppard Duodecimal Slide Rule The Spiral Slide Rule (Reprint) Calculating Using the Diagonal Scale 7th International Meeting, Munich, September 2001 Letter (David Ponick) News and Reviews A Note to Authors Vol. 11 No. 1 Spring 2002 Table of Contents From the President From the Editor Newton's Polynomial Solver Three American Printed Page Logarithmic Calculating Scales Printed Logarithmic Calculating Scale by Loewe Aristo Slide Rule Production in Bavaria La Règle á Calcul: Lenoir, Gravet-Lenoir and Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rules Early French Slide Rules in Various Collections A Slide Rule for Radiation Calculations Teaching the Slide Rule Albert Nestler: Innovation and Quality Letter to the Editor The Voltage Drop Slide Rule by C.C. Moler The Aristo Electronic Calculators Two Unusual Early Slide Rules The Lightning Calculator - Bonham, Hook, and Pangborn Two Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rule Systems One Man's Collection The Slide Rule and Early Astronaut Training Vol. 11 No. 2 Fall 2002 Table of Contents The 8th International Meeting of Slide Rule Collectors The East Coast Oughtred Society Meeting Mea Culpa The Fowler Calculators -- a Catalogue Raisonne Reviews (``Discussing Chemistry and Steam'') The Remarkable Hemmi 101 Things to Do on a Wet Afternoon Frederic H. Leubuscher and K&E Salisbury Products Tavernier-Gravet Slide Rules: a Chronology The 31st (1903) and 32nd (1906) Editions of the K\&E Catalogue The Conceptual Logarithmic Dividing Engine The Keuffel \& Esser Logarithmic Dividing Engine The Meilicke ``Calculators'' Shadows of the Atomic Age Neither Straight, Circular nor Cylindrical: The Ring Binder Slide Rule of Franckh, Stuttgart Thomas Fowler's Ternary Calculating Machine ``Ratcliffe'' -- Mathematical Instrument Making Customs Officers on the London Docks The Easterly Rafter Slide Rule Multiplication by Quarter Squares American Planimeters Vol. 12 No. 1 Spring 2003 Table of Contents President's Message Meetings Book Reviews Five Pickett Electronics Slide Rules Textile Slide Rules Snipes and Poppers How does the Analon Work? Suxspeach (Continued) A Most Unusual K&E Slide Rule Keuffel & Esser Slide Rules 1909 Lightning Subtraction A Comprehensive Hemmi Slide Rule Catalog The Computing Board The Groesbeck Adder The Cox Lathe Gear Computer Vol. 12 No.2 Fall 2003 Table of Contents IM2003 - A Memorable Event Slide Rules Conversations September 2003 Symposium in Greifswald The UK Slide Rule Circle Book Review (IJ Schuitema, The Slide Rule ...) Rod Lovett's Website The Incredible Curta Keuffel & Esser Slide Rules - 1913 Lang's Grain Density Caliper - Slide Rule Combination The Evolution of the K&E 4088-2 and 4088-3 Slide Rules Twin Slide Rules? The K&E 4088 and the Post 1458 Addition and Subtraction With Slide Rules ... Part I Snipes and Poppers ... Buying and Selling on eBay, Part Two - How to Sell Just Popping Along The Boucher Style Pocket Calculator The Demise of the Slide Rule Textile Slide Rules - A Supplement Who Remembers What a Slide Rule Is? The Imperial Equalisation Slide Rule Instructions for Authors A Binary Based Slide Rule Der Rechenuhr A Slide Rule to Handle Five Factors Simultaneously Vol. 13 No.1 Spring 2004 Table of Contents Annie Schuitema Miscellaneous Rules A U.S. Navy Radar Slant Range Computer Slide Chart Calculators - A Modest Proposal Gunter Rules in Navigation Long-Scale Slide Rules Revisited Renard's Preferred Numbers A Man and His Slide Rules . . . The Hasselblatt Slide Rule System The Amazing "P" Scales Vol.14 No.1 Spring 2005 Table of Contents How Slide Rules Won a War, A.Green Slide Rules in the Classroom - An Anecdotal Report, Paul R. Huff On the Evolution of K&E Vector Slide Rules, Richard Smith Hughes The K&E 4110 Power Trig Slide Rule Revisited, Clark McCoy The Aristo Scholar Series, John Mosand Slide Rules with Hyperbolic Functions, William K. Robinson The Schnellkalkulator System Bloch - A Mechanical Nomographic Table, Werner H. Rudowski Getting Hooked on Slide Rules - A Classroom Tale, Dagmar Rutzen Hemmi's 50 Centimeter Slide Rules, Warren Salomon Non-Logarithmic Slide Rules, Christopher J. Sangwin Adriaen Vlacq and Ezechiel de Decker: Dutch Contributors to the Early Tables of Briggsian Logarithms, O. van Poelje Vol.14 No.2 Fall 2005 Book Reviews: An 18th Century Book on Instruments, Brian Borchers U. S. 18th and 19th Century Patents, Bob Otnes A Book on Tides, Brian Borchers Mr. K. Kasper -- In Memoriam, IJzebrand Schuitema Prosthaphaerisis, Brian Borchers UK Slide Rule Circle Sponsors Well-Attended International Meeting, IM2005, Tom Wyman The Oughtred Society East Coast Meeting, November 11-13, 2005, Tom Wyman, Louis Gotlib and Ed Chamberlain The Oughtred Society Hall of Fame: Presentation of Awards and Fellowships, Otto E. van Poelje The Slide Rules of Reverend William Flower, Tom Wyman The Kentish Slide Rule, Conrad Schure Archimedes -- His Approach Toward Logarithms, Peter Holland John Davis and Son (Derby) Ltd., Colin Barnes Designing Three Variable Slide charts, Leighton Lee III Aristo's Further Development of the Darmstadt System, John Mosand The Navigation Scale, Improved by B. Donn, Otto E. van Poelje Years Become Shorter -- Like the Logarithmic Distances on a Slide Rule, Werner H. Rudowski Other Men and Their Slide Rules, Peter Hopp A Decade After the End: A Slide Rule Instruction Book Published in 1984, David D. McFarland Thou Preparest a Table Before Me, Lloyd Kannenberg The Keuffel & Esser Building in New York City, Gary S. Flom Interview with Gerd Keuffel, Gary S. Flom Chinese Vector Slide Rules, Richard Smith Hughes and William K. Robinson The Crichlow Slide Rule, Brian Borchers