About Slide Rule
Before the pocket calculator, every engineer computed on a slide rule: logarithmic C, D, A, K and L scales engraved on a celluloid or bamboo body, read through a glass cursor and its single hairline. This system borrows that instrument's grammar — parallel scale bands, fine graduated ticks, a sliding register — and dresses it in Pickett's vivid Eye-Saver Yellow with crisp black engraving. It is precision made visible: nothing decorative, everything measured.
- Origin
- North America (Keuffel & Esser, New York; Pickett, California)
- Era
- 1950–1990 (peak before the 1972 HP-35 calculator)
- Key figures
- Keuffel & Esser · Pickett & Eckel · William Oughtred
- Movements
- engineering instrumentation · analog computation · industrial design
Slide Rule design spec
Colors
Typography
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