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Where is it???? Message #1 Posted by Laurie Muglia on 24 Mar 2000, 9:50 a.m. Hello, I am a guidance counselor who is in charge of the Academically Gifted program in New Jersey. One of my students is doing a report on slide rules. We have found lots of great info here and would like to know where the museum is located. Please email with a response. Thank you for your time and consideration, Laurie Muglia

Re: Where is it???? Message #2 Posted by Tom Lianza on 27 Mar 2000, 10:26 p.m., in response to message #1 by Laurie Muglia Dear Laurie, It's nice that someone is actually interested in helping Academically Gifted students. There usually aren't many resources left over for them. Your student should take a look at the history of logarithms and the work of a mathematician named Briggs. Without him, there probably would not have been slide rules. Your student should also look at the Curta calculator. www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/7227/curta.html It is a facinating piece of work.....

Re: Where is it???? Message #3 Posted by Matt on 31 Mar 2000, 12:06 p.m., in response to message #1 by Laurie Muglia Where's the museum? You're soaking in it. I think if primary school students spent a year or two working with slide rules at the same time they're learning about ratios, scientific notation, and logarithms (etc), they'd be a LOT better off down the road. You get an intuitive feel for the principals behind basic math from using a slide rule that you aren't likely to pick up any other way. Anyway you've probably found it by now (but just in case) the definitive slide rule resource is at http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html

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