Speed And Fun With Figures

by T. O'Conor Sloane, J.E. Thompson

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

584 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2007

About the author

Thomas O'Conor Sloane was an American scientist, inventor, author, editor, educator and linguist, perhaps best known for writing The Standard Electrical Dictionary and as the editor of Scientific American, from 1886 to 1896 and the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, from 1929 to 1938.
(source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Christian Crowley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a recommendation from a Canadian website devoted to slide rules. The book is actually a collection of three titles: I got a cool old slide rule (ca 1924) and this book is one of the standard texts for learning how to drive the thing. I love the old typeface, patent-style illustrations, and settings of mathematical expressions. The text is pretty clear and interesting.

[Don Gubler · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are actually some interesting things in here.