Any one remember using the slide rule

[Q165]

Certainly do. I was useless at maths but learned to use one easily. We were all encouraged to have them.

[kettering_baggie]

Jesus Kets.......a tool box😩

I just knew you’d have one 🤣

FFS man.......get a life! 😏

Hahaha, well, it’s a tool chest really, one of those big ones on casters, lots of drawers and a cupboard at the bottom. Keeps everything tidy; you need to know where your bits are when you need them!

[phild]

I was often whacked over the knuckles with one in maths class. The teachers were bloody sadists in my day

[DaveP67 is back!]

Jesus Kets.......a tool box😩

I just knew you’d have one 🤣

FFS man.......get a life! 😏

Mick if you don’t own a decent tool box then forget about buying a classic Ford 🤣🤣

[boingy]

I was always led by psychological thinking during maths lessons:
“Tom has six apples and Brian has 15 bananas.....”
At this point I was wondering what on earth Brian wanted 15 bananas for, was he over compensating for a neglected childhood?
Needless to say never understood the point of Maths.

[Albionic68]

Never used one and could never see the sense in Algebra

Algebraic equations are for people who can't add, subtract, divide or multiply numbers. Makes them feel clever in a special kind of way. I wasn't an admirer of algebra either.

Never used a slide rule. Having skipped through the attached video clip it looks pretty straightforward. Mind you I'd probably have fallen asleep if the bloke in the clip had been a teacher of mine.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

Well let's hope I listened and learned in the maths lessons or there will be a few houses in Suss ex falling down anytime soon. Loved working out amounts of material, loadings and best of all profits.

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

I was always led by psychological thinking during maths lessons:
“Tom has six apples and Brian has 15 bananas.....”
At this point I was wondering what on earth Brian wanted 15 bananas for, was he over compensating for a neglected childhood?
Needless to say never understood the point of Maths.

I was dreadful at maths at first mainly because I was turned off by the kind of mundane, everyday questions you illustrate above. " If Fred has 17 bolts at 3p each and his nuts cost 1/2p each, etc, etc" My mind used to go blank at this point. As soon as I discovered Geometry and Algebra though I thrived, it was like my brain was made for it.

Here is my slide rule and case, still in good working order since the first time I used it, in the mid sixties probably. Might put it on e-bay just to see how much someone is willing to pay for it. Not selling though!

[SCOOP115]

Just think. Some of the greatest Engineering feats of the early 20th Century, must have been achived using calculations off a slide rule, the accuracy of which which, by todays standards, was vary coarse to say the least. Aircraft, Cars, ships Buildings. - It worked then

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

Just think. Some of the greatest Engineering feats of the early 20th Century, must have been achived using calculations off a slide rule, the accuracy of which which, by todays standards, was vary coarse to say the least. Aircraft, Cars, ships Buildings. - It worked then

I can say without doubt that no great engineering feats were achieved with the one pictured above!