* Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-11-06 19:27]:
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> I guess, as the fomenter of this thread--which has gotten even further
> OT than I ever thought--I could contribute this: I have a Lafayette
> Radio Log-Log-Decitrig rule, model F341, made in Japan, in perfect
> condition, which I used to use in the 1960's and early 70's, until
> calculators became available. I think it is made of bamboo, but it has
> a very nice plastic scale on both sides and the slide. I admit that
> I never understood all the possibilities of this fine instrument.
> It works as well today as it did when it was made. I don't!
I still have a book I obtained in school about two years after my first
log-stick, 1957 publish date:
The Chemical Rubber Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH.
2310 Superior Avenue, N. E. , Cleveland Ohio
C.R.C. - Standard Mathematical Tables
formerly Mathematical Tables from Handbook of Chemistry and Pysics
Editor in Chief: Charles D. Hodgman, M.S.
Professor Emeritus, Case Institute of Technology
First CopyRight 1931
Price on the cover page, Three Dollars in United States, Three Dollars
and Fifty Cents outside United Sttes.
The book does not contain a Library of Congress number, and is still in
it's original age-yellowed plastic protective cover.
I was a junior in High School.
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