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• Mensuration made perfectly easy (Printed at T. Chapman's Off., 1801) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction for Using a Slide Rule, by W. Stanley (Gutenberg ebook)

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• A history of the logarithmic slide rule and allied instruments (The Engineering news publishing company; [etc., etc.], 1909), by Florian Cajori (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of the slide rule (Keuffel & Esser co., 1915), by Allan Reginald Cullimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thacher's calculating instrument or cylindrical slide-rule. Containing complete and simple rules and directions for performing the greatest variety of useful calculations with unexampled rapidity and accuracy ... (D. Van Nostrand, 1884), by Edwin Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical slide rule manual ([Lithoprinted by Edwards brothers, inc.], 1944), by Jack M. Klock (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the lines drawn on Gunter's scale, as improved by Mr. John Robertson ... and executed by Messrs. Nairne and Blunt ... with their use and application to practice, exemplified more especially in navigation and astronomy (Printed for Messrs. Nairne and Blunt, 1788), by William Mountaine and J. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slide-rule notes (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by Henry Cleland Dunlop and C. S. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A key to the modern sliding-rule. : Containing the description and exlpanation [!] of the various purposes, of that valuable instrument, as now used by His Majesty's officers of customs, excise, &c. and also of two improved sliding-rules, for speedily and accurately gauging and measuring solids and superfices at one operation. Not to be performed by any other instrument yet constructed. Together with the advantages of a new instrument of sliding sines and tangents in plane and spherical trigonometry (Printed for the author; and sold by G. Kearsly [etc.], 1768), by W. Flower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvement to Palmer's endless self-computing scale and key; adapting it to the different professions, with examples and illustrations for each profession; and also to colleges, academies and schools, with a time telegraph, making, by uniting the two, a computing telegraph. (Printed for the publisher, 1846), by John E. Fuller and Aaron Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The description and use of the sliding rule, in arithmetic, and in the mensuration of surfaces and solids. Also, the description of the ship carpenter's sliding rule, and its use applied to the construction of masts, yards, &c. together with the description and use of the guaging rule, gauging rod, & ullage rule (Printed for Oliphant, Waugh, and Innes; [etc., etc.], 1811), by Andrew Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instrumental calculation or a treatise on the sliding rule. (G. Smith, 1846), by T. H. McLeod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graphic aids in engineering computation (McGraw-Hill, 1952), by Randolph P. Hoelscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule (The University of Chicago press, 1930), by Ernst R. Breslich and Charles Arthur Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions for the use of A.W. Faber's improved calculating rule (A.W. Faber, 1900), by Charles Newton Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on the sliding rule. In two parts. Part the first, Being an introduction to the use of the rule generally as adapted for calculations that usually occur to persons in trade. Part the second, Containing formulae for the use of surveyors, architects, civil engineers, and scientific gentlemen (Printed for the author [etc.], 1822), by Bruce W. Bevan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quick & easy methods of calculating. A simple explanation of the theory & use of the slide-rule, logarithms, etc... (E. & F.N. Spon, 1898), by Robert Gordon Blaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule (The College press, 1933), by Norman L. Samuelson and William W. Gorsline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teorica e pratica del regolo calcolatore. (Stamperia Reale, 1859), by Quintino Sella (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule and its use; a text-work book (Grosset & Dunlap :, 1942), by Hobart H. Sommers, T. W. Wallschlaeger, and Harry Drell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule an how to use it (International textbook company, 1924), by Rufus T. Strohm (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule; how to use it (International Textbook, 1948), by Rufus T. Strohm, A. De Groot, and International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard manual of the slide rule: its history, principle, and operation. (Van Nostrand, 1952), by James Edgar Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions for the use of A.W. Faber's improved calculating rule (A.W. Faber, 1900), by Charles Newton Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palmer's pocket scale, with rules for its use in solving arithmetical and geometrical problems. (Tait & Walling, 1845), by Aaron Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule and its application in office, foundry, factory, and mill (Cornish brothers ltd., 1925), by A. Williams Price (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mechanic's assistant: a thorough practical treatise on mensuration and the sliding rule: teaching the manner of drawing all regular superficies ... treating also of the laws of motion, the descent of falling bodies, the strength of materials, the mechanical powers, the elasticity and force of steam, specific gravities, levelling, the pendulum, etc., adapted for the use of carpenters, shipwrights ... and artisans generally (D. Appleton & company; [etc., etc.], 1849), by D. M. Knapen (page images at HathiTrust)
• K & E merchant's (calculating) slide rule. (Keuffel & Esser co., 1915), by New York Kueffel & Esser co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the history of Gunter's scale and the slide rule during the seventeenth century (University of California press, 1920), by Florian Cajori (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the problems in teaching the slide rule (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1940), by Carl N. Shuster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das rechnen in der technik und seine hilfsmittel, rechenschieber, rechentafeln, rechenmaschinen usw. (G.J. Göschen, 1908), by Joh. Eugen Mayer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Slide rule simplified (American technical society, 1943), by Charles Overton Harris and American Technical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Solution of railroad problems by the slide rule. (D. Van Nostrand Co., 1913), by Edward Richard Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simple explanation of the theory and use of the slide-rule, logarithms, etc., with numerous examples worked out (E. & F.N. Spon, Ltd.;, 1907), by Robert Gordon Blaine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mannheim slide rule; complete manual with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points (Keuffel & Esser co., 1909), by William Cox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hand-book of the "double" slide rule, shewing its applicability to navigation. Including some remarks on great circle sailing, and variation of the compass, with useful astronomical memoranda (Bell & Daldy, 1864), by W. H. Bayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slide-rule instructor, for instruction on Chadwick's improved slide rule, containing new and important rules upon the present practice of engineering, etc. for the use of engineers, millwrights, mechanics and artisans, mill owners, cotton spinners, calico printers, bleachers and finishers, colliery proprietors, and steam users generally. (J. Heywood, 1893), by John Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of the slide rule (Keuffel & Esser Co., 1920), by Allan Reginald Cullimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie et usage de la règle à calculs (Règle des écoles.--Règle Mannheim). (Gauthier-Villars, 1907), by P. Rozé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der logarithmische rechenschieber und sein gebrauch; eine elementare anleitung zur verwendung des instruments für studierende und für praktiker. (K. Wittwer, 1908), by E. Hammer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Instruction sur les règles à calcul et particuliérement sur la nouvelle régle à enveloppe de verre. (L. Hachette, 1851), by L. Lalanne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The polyphase duplex slide; a self teaching manual with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points (Keuffel and Esser co., 1925), by William Edwin Breckenridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mannheim slide rule : a self-teaching practical manual with numerous illustrations and problems (Eugene Dietzgen Co., 1925), by Allan Reginald Cullimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log log duplex slide rule; a self teaching manual with tables of settings, equivalent and gauge points (Keuffel & Esser, 1932), by William E. Breckenridge and Keuffel & Esser Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Linear scale non-logarithmic slide rules (G. & G. Corp., 1952), by Morris Lewis Groder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Department store statistics with the aid of the slide rule. (R.B. Schreffler, 1914), by Robert Bruce Schreffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementary slide rule manual; a self-intructing text book for beginners (The Frederick Post Co., 1925), by Herman Ritow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Figuring with graphs and scales (Stanford university press;, 1938), by Herbert G. Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to use slide rules. (Kolesch & company, 1908), by D. Petri-Palmedo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teorica e pratica del regolo calcolatore. (G.B. Paravia, 1886), by Quintino Sella (page images at HathiTrust)
• The description and use of the sliding gunter in navigation (Printed for the author by J. Burnett, 1802), by Andrew Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of the slide rule (Van Nostrand, 1915), by Frederick A. Halsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule simplified ([s.n.], 1918), by George W. Richardson and J. J. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide-rule, and how to use it: containing full, easy, and simple instructions to perform all business calculations with unexampled rapidity and accuracy. (Virtue & Co., 1868), by Charles Hoare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Phillips slide rule. A self-teaching practical manual with numerous illustrations and problems (E. Dietzgen co., 1925), by Allan Reginald Cullimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule: a practical manual. (Emmott and Co., Limited, and C.N. Pickworth;, 1903), by Charles Newton Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slide rule; a practical manual. (Manchester, Emmott and co., limited, and C.N. Pickworth;, 1908), by Charles N. Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ein Rechenschieber mit Teilung in gleiche Intervalle auf der Grundlage der Zahlentheoretischen Indizes. (D.R.G.M.S. Nr. 344576) Für den Unterricht konstruiert. (J. Lindauersche Buchhandlung, 1909), by Joh Schumacher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slide rule applied to commercial calculations (Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1922), by R. M. Shireby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anleitung zum Rechnen mit dem logarithmischen Rechenschieber. Durch Beispiele erläutert und mit zwei lithographierten Tafeln versehen. (A. Raustein, 1896), by J. Aug Müller-Bertossa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule and how to use it, containing full, easy, and simple instructions to perform all business calculations with unexampled rapidity and accuracy ... (Lockwood, 1918), by Charles Hoare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Instructions for post-trig and Mannheim-trig slide rules (The Frederick Post Company, 1945), by Ross Raymond Middlemiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characteristics for finding decimal point on the slide rule. (Accurate Print. Co.; distributed by the Atkins Co., 1957), by J. D. Clair Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Turbinenrechenschieber und seine Anwendung zur Projektierung von Wasserkraftanlagen. (Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1908), by Paul Holl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mannheim and Phillips slide rules; theory and practical application, adapted from the third (revised) edition of the treatise (Eugene Dietzgen Co.], 1915), by L. W. Rosenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule and logarithmic tables, including a ten-place table of logarithms; a concise and accurate reference work on the application of the slide rule and logarithmic tables to practical problems (F. J. Drake & Co., 1921), by John Jesse Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thacher's patent calculation instrument or cylindrical slide-rule. Containing complete and simple rules and directions for performing the greatest variety of useful calculating with unexampled rapidity and accuracy. (Keuffel & Esser Co., 1903), by Edwin Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule, an elementary treatise (Technical Supply Co., 1909), by John Jesse Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• A key to the slide rule: embracing most of the mathematics applicable to the mechanic arts; together with the art of calculation in a cotton mill ... (Printed by H. Chickering, 1848), by Francis A. Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on a vox of instruments and the slide-rule. For the use of gaugers, engineers, seamen and students. (H.C. Baird (successor to E.L. Carey), 1854), by Thomas Kentish (page images at HathiTrust)
• A device for rapidly fitting data to two mass law dissociation curves applied to enzyme reactions (United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service ;, 1952), by Jean Captain Sabine, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule simplified (G. D. Clougher & Co., 1914), by George W. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule: a practical manual. (Emmott and Co., Limited, and, 1920), by Charles N. Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slide rule simplified ([Chicago?, 1912), by George W. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule simplified. (Chicago, 1917), by George W. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule: a practical manual (Emmott and Co., Limited, 1894), by Charles N. Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directions for using Thacher's calculating instrument. (Keuffel & Esser Co., 1910), by Edwin Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mannheim and the duplex slide rules. ([s.n., 1891), by William Cox and New York Keuffel & Esser Co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The polyphase duplex slide rule : a self teaching manual with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points (Keuffel & Esser Co., 1922), by William E. Breckenridge and Keuffel & Esser Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Theorie der Rechenschieber. (R. Gaertner, 1899), by Hermann Fürle and Germany). Wissenschaftliche Beilage Real-Schule (Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mannheim slide rule; complete manual with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points (Keuffel & Esser, 1891), by William Cox and Keuffel & Esser Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule and how to use it : containing full, easy, and simple instructions to perform all business calculations with unexampled rapidity and accuracy (Crosby Lockwood and son, 1890), by Charles Hoare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mannheim (complete manual) and the duplex slide rules (Keuffel & Esser, 1891), by William Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mechanic's assistant; a thorough practical treatise on mensuration and the sliding rule: teaching the manner of drawing all regular superficies ... treating also of the laws of motion, the descent of falling bodies, the strength of materials, the mechanical powers, the elasticity and force of steam, specific gravities, levelling, the pendulum, etc., adapted for the use of carpenters, shipwrights ... and artisans generally. (D. Appleton, 1850), by D. M. Knapen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slide rule. (E. & F.N. Spon ;, 1903), by Robert Gordon Blaine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slide rule (Keuffel & Esser co. ;, 1891), by William Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie und gebrauch des logarithmischen rechenschiebers. (Verlag von Meyer & Zeller (A. Reimmann), 1875), by L. Tetmajer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule; a practical manual. (Emmott and Co., Limited, and C. N. Pickworth;, 1900), by Charles N. Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mannheim and polyphase slide rules; complete manual with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points. (Keuffel and Esser Co., 1922), by William E. Breckenridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slide rule problems with operational instructions (Ronald, 1956), by Philip John Potter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slide rule. (D. Van Nostrand Co., 1949), by Lee H. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slide rule and how to use it (International Textbook, 1939), by Rufus Tracy Strohm and International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mannheim slide rule : a self teaching manual with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points (Keuffel & Esser, 1924), by William E. Breckenridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mannheim & Polyphase slide rule : complete manual with tables of settings, equivalents and gauge points (Keuffel & Esser Co., 1922), by William Edwin Breckenridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Log log vector (trade mark) slide rule : patented and copyrighted (Keuffel & Esser, 1930), by Mendell Penco Weinbach, A. F. Puchstein, and Keuffel & Esser Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slide rule : a practical manual (Emmott ;, 1927), by Charles N. Pickworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Understanding and using the slide rule. (H. W. Sams, 1963), by Washington Electronic Teaching Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• K+E slide rules : DECI-LON: an instruction manual. (Keuffel & Esser Co., 1962), by Keuffel & Esser Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The LL trig duplex slide rule : a manual (Keuffel & Esser Co., 1936), by Lyman M. Kells, Willis F. Kern, James R. Bland, and Keuffel & Esser Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Using the slide rule in electronic technology. (Rider, 1962), by E. Charles Alvarez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Slide rule short cuts, with positive location of the decimal point : for radio and electronic engineers, technicians and others ([s.n., 1946), by W. P. Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rachinger conversion rule (Ames, Iowa : Ames Laboratory at Iowa State College, 1955., 1955), by B. A. Rogers, Paul E. Palmer, Louis Ried, Ames Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Use of slide rule in solving ground-water problems involving application of the nonequilibrium formula (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1951), by C. V. Theis, R. H. Brown, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A special purpose slide rule for computing solid angles (Union Carbide Nuclear Company, Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, 1957), by J. R. Knight, H. F. Henry, Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Union Carbide Nuclear Company, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roberts's mechanic's assistant (London : Longman, Rees, and Co [and several others], 1837., 1829), by Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slide rule and logarithmic tables, including a ten-place table of logarithms. A concise and accurate reference work on the application of the slide rule and logarithmic tables to practical problems. (F.J. Drake & Co., 1941), by John Jesse Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The study of the slide rule (Chicago, 1942), by Hobart H. Sommers, T. W. Wallschlaeger, and Harry Drell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century, by Florian Cajori (Gutenberg ebook)
• Timber-measure by a line of more ease, dispatch and exactness, then any other way now in use, by a double scale after the countrey-measure, by the length and quarter of the circumference in round timber, and by the length and side of the square in squared timber, and square equal in flat timber : as also stone-measure and gauging of vessels by the same near and exact way, likewise a diagonal scale of 100 parts in a quarter of an inch, very easie both to make and use / by Hen. Coggeshall. (London : Printed for the author and are to be sold by Robert Pricke ..., 1677), by Henry Coggeshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The line of proportion or numbers, commonly called Gunters line, made easie by the which may be measured all manner of superficies and solids, as board, glass, pavement, timber, stone, &c. : also, how to perform the same by a line of equal parts ... : whereunto is added, the use of the line of proportion improved ... / by William Leybourn. (London : Printed by J.S. for G. Sawbridge ..., 1667), by William Leybourn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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