Slide Rules

Pickett N-515-T CIE Electronic

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    Volumes

    1. Vol 1 Pickett N-515-T Electronic (CIE) — Volume 1 — A Slide Rule from a Correspondence School Why a home-study electronics school in Cleveland commissioned its own slide rule, who designed it, and how to date one
    2. Vol 2 Pickett N-515-T Electronic (CIE) — Volume 2 — The Front Face: Electronic Scales on a Pickett Body Eleven scales, three index marks and a red legend — what each one computes, and how the rule is built
    3. Vol 3 Pickett N-515-T Electronic (CIE) — Volume 3 — The Back Face: The Decimal Point Locator and the Formula Panels How Darrell Geiger's patented scales put the decimal point in the right place, and everything printed beside them
    4. Vol 4 Pickett N-515-T Electronic (CIE) — Volume 4 — Working Electronics Problems, and Caring for the Rule Reactance, resonance, decibels, parallel resistors and impedance on the N-515-T — then cleaning the painted aluminium, the cursor and the leather case