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1He readjusted the slide rule and slid the hairline over a bit.
2The actual slide rule was invented by one Oughtred in the same year.
3I was so shocked that I almost snapped my slide rule.
4Dudley took from the desk another ledger, a slide rule, and a scratchpad.
5In 1622, Willliam Oughtred invented the slide rule for calculations.
6He invented Gunter's scale, a predecessor of the slide rule.
7Hazleton had left his slide rule upon the table.
8He always carries a slide rule in his pocket.
9There is no need to navigate by compass and slide rule to the exact geometric middle.
10Seminar aims to get the slide rule set to think like creative artists, writes Gabrielle Monaghan.
11He used a T-square and a slide rule.
12Rip got his instruments and pulled out a special slide rule designed for use in space.
13Then he sat down, produced an elaborate pocket slide rule, and became oblivious to the world.
14I walked to Greenwich, studying the slide rule for measuring of timber, which is very fine.
15Books, clothes, slide rule-I had never been a pack rat-and that minor junk was gone anyhow.
16Using a decimal ruler and circular slide rule he created a lengthy table in musical sign language.
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