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Other slide rule sites The potential uses of slide rules go far beyond those described on this site. The potential can be extended in two ways:
I have tried to include the date of the most recent update of the sites listed below. Sometimes this was not easy and I had to estimate from other clues in the text. If I have misrepresented your site in any way or if you have a site that is not included please contact me at ron01@sliderules.info . |
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| The Oughtred Society has its own web site. They also have links to more slide rule sites than I have included here. | http://www.oughtred.org/ | 2008 | |
| Slide rule forum - this site has many previous messages describing how to use different types of rules. Since January 2001 operated under the aegis of Yahoo. | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sliderule/messages | 2008 | |
| As well as detailed photographs of his slide rules, includes a searchable database of eBay slide rule prices, a searchable database of the major slide rule literature and searchable databases of the ISRG, Slide Rule Forum and Herman's archives. | http://sliderules.lovett.com/ | 2008 | |
| The Science Museum has a small collection of slide rule photographs but this includes some very early slide rules. Go to the main site and search on side rules. | http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ | 2008 | |
| Whilst this is a commercial site it also has a lot of useful information including comprehensive archives of many companies. The largest and one of the most useful sites on the web. | http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html | 2008 | |
| Although it covers other calculating and drawing instruments as well as slide rules, it is still a very good slide rule site. Includes a list of useful references and a guide to collecting. | http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/ | 2008 | |
| The slide rule museum run by Mike Konshak is a site which includes details of 1000 slide rules and masses of other information including instructions and a slide rule glossary. It also hosts site by other collectors, including: | http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/ | 2008(?) | |
| Tom Dilatush's collection includes some 19th century rules and and chance to solve some of his mysteries. | http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/isrm/dilatush/ | 2008 | |
| Stefan Vorkoetter's site covers electronic calculators and slide rules. | http://www.stefanv.com/calculators/ | 2008 | |
| The "Mad slide ruling" site is visually attractive and aimed at interesting children in slide rules. | http://www.theslideruler.org/text/index.html | 2008 | |
| A very professional and extensive French site. Covers not just slide rules but other calculating instruments. | http://www.linealis.org/ | 2008 | |
| Another French site with instructions for use and some interesting rules. | http://orochoir.club.fr/index.htm | 2008 | |
| This site has almost 50 virtual slide rules. | http://nsg.upor.net/slide/srlist.htm | 2008 | |
| This site will probably interest slide rule collectors, not because it has a large collection of slide rules but because the slide rules it has are interesting and it deals with the sort of things slide rule enthusiasts often find interesting, like fractals. | http://www.nzeldes.com | 2008 | |
| This Australian linked to a museum has a wide range of slide rules. | http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/ | 2008 | |
| A site devoted the popularisation of slide rules. In Italian, German, French, Spanish, English, Romanian, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. | http://www.giovannipastore.it/ | 2008 | |
| This site by Sergei Frolov is devoted to Russian slide rules but, thankfully for most of us, is in English. | http://www.geocities.com/Russian_rules/ | 2008 | |
| An interesting site from Argentina (in Spanish) with details on wide range of rules - including 2 from Argentina. It even has a poem! | http://www.reglasdecalculo.com.ar/ | 2008 | |
| Peter's site has a detailed list of slide rules and literature for trade and for slide rules wanted. It is in English and German. | www.PeterHolland.de | 2007 | |
| Dave's slide rules - includes a slide rule primer. | http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/slide/index.html | 2007 | |
| This site is very strong on the history of slide rules. | http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/ | 2007 | |
| Mike is well on the way to creating a valuable virtual museum of slide rules. | www.sliderulemuseum.com | 2007 | |
| Has a small collection of rules but include some manuals. | http://www.scarpaz.com/regoli/regoli.html | 2007 | |
| Include a "for sale" and "looking for" sections. | http://www.slideruleguy.com/ | 2007 | |
| Gregg Scott's site had a large collection and several (around 150) manuals to download. | http://sliderule.ozmanor.com/ | 2006 | |
| This site has a lot of images of early (19th) century US rules described as "2 foot 2 fold rules with Gunters slides" by Phillip Cannon. | http://home.att.net/~seven0610.2041/19thcmkr.htm | 2006 | |
| This is the site for information on K&E slide rules including a listing of know slide rules from that maker. | http://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/ | 2006 (?) | |
| Ezio Raddi's site in Italian and has instructions for using slide rules. | http://ezioraddi.altervista.org/ | 2005 | |
| Givanni Breda's site is based in Italy but is in English. Has rules from a wide range of manufacturers and an impressive range of navigation tools. | http://www.sliderule.it/ | 2005 | |
| Nicely put together with an interesting section showing the evolution of a K&E model. Also has a useful section on reviews of slide rule books both old and new. | http://www.sliderule.ca | 2003 | |
| A collection of (mainly) US slide rules. | http://www.gizmology.net/sliderules.htm | 2003 | |
| This site has a small collection of slide pictures but also has some old slide texts, the earliest being "Stereometry or the art of gauging" by Everard dated 1727. | http://homepages.tesco.net/physics/index.html | 2002 | |
| A site about slide rules with many external links. Not updated since 2002. | http://www.geocities.com/kungyiji/srule.htm | 2002 | |
| Tom Bullock's slide rule site - with a few unusual rules including a nuclear bomb effects computer. | http://www.tbullock.com/sliderule.html | 2001 | |
| John Current's site - his personal collection of about 50 slide rules | http://home.att.net/~jcurrent/srule.htm | 2000 | |
| A site which combines slide rules with typewriters! Includes some in depth articles by the site owner. | http://hometown.aol.com/usra482b/index.html | (?) | |
| Devoted to Otis King calculators with a good background | http://www.svpal.org/~dickel/OK/OtisKing.html | (?) | |
| A French slide rule site. | http://machineacalculer.free.fr/Regle.htm | (?) | |
Looks at the mathematics behind slide rules. |
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5136/slide.html | (?) | |
| Todd Tolhurst's slide rule site - includes images of slide rules and forthright political opinions. | http://www.toddtolhurst.com/sliderules/ | (?) | |
Note: Where the latest date of update is not clear I have included a question mark (?). This may be for example due to evidence that the site has been updated recently but that copyright statement has not.