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"Slide Rules: The First Nerd Tool," by Eric Levin. Discover, August 2003, pages 66-73.
This article, unfortunately subtitled, has some history and many pictures of slide rules. Traditional slide rules are pictured as are some with very particular uses, such as a 1935 slide rule designed to decipher the Mayan calendar. The text begins, "No frontier sheriff ever strode more proudly down Main Street than Tom Apostol did across the campus of the University of Utah in 1941, wearing his own trusty side arm---a 10-inch Keuffel & Esser log-log Decitrig slide rule."
--- Mike Breen
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