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	Eric's Introduction to the Slide Rule - http://www.sliderule.ca/intro.htm Slide rule resources and links.
	History of the Slide Rule - http://www.hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm Basic facts involving the development of the slide rule. Includes diagrams and links to information on various types of slide rules.
	Basic Slide Rule Instructions - http://www.hpmuseum.org/srinst.htm Explains how to multiply, find cube and square roots and other operations. Includes illustrations.
	Make Your Own Circular Slide Rule - http://solar.physics.montana.edu/kankel/math/csr.html Templates, directions, and some links to other slide rule sites.
	Napier's Bones - http://www.mwbrooks.com/bones.html A story about the use of a 6-inch Pickett "all-metal" slide rule (Model N 200-ES), with case.

	Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent - http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/thachpat.htm Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.
	Internet Slide Rule - http://www.sagmilling.com/sliderule/ Internet port of history's most heavily used advanced calculation aid.
	How a Slide Rule Works - http://vulpeculox.net/misc/sliderul.htm Short lesson.
	About Slide Rules - http://www.caffnib.co.uk/slides.htm Explains how to use the different scales to multiply and divide.
	Slide Rule Scales - http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/scales.html Describes the types of scales found on most slide rules.

	How to Use a Slide Rule as a Bicycle Gear Chart - http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~arpepper/Cycling/slide_rule.html Slide rules are useful for doing gear calculations. Briefly describes a method for doing so.
	How To Make a Slide Rule (or Log-log or Semilog Graph Paper) - http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/~fulling/m152/sliderul.html Fairly simple instructions.

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