I just came upon a slide rule in a Looney Tunes WB cartoon that I saw on TV.
"Little Boy Boo", from 1954, starring Foghorn Leghorn & Miss Prissy.

In this episode, Foghorn, trying to obtain Miss Prissy's favors, takes her
nerdy son Egghead Jr out to play, and tries to teach him baseball. Obviously
the kid (...pardon me: the chick...) knows nothing about the sport, but is
eager to approach the issue scientifically. When he is assigned to pitch the
ball to Foghorn, he takes out his slide rule (...it has only a slide and one
stator... can't fogure out the model!;-) to calculate the ballistics of his
ball.

When he throws the ball, it goes so fast that it passes right through
Foghorn's bat and the trunks of a number of trees behind the batter...

It is hilarious!

François
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From: http://www.davemackey.com/animation/wb/index.html
and: http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=446&p=s

"Little Boy Boo"
Rel 6/5/54 - Prod 1289 - MPAA 16131 - LT (Orange rings)
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Tedd Pierce - Anim: Herman Cohen, Rod
Scribner, Phil DeLara, Charles McKimson - Layout: Robert Givens -
Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas - VC: Mel Blanc - Music: Carl Stalling
Video: "A Salute To Mel Blanc", "LT:TCE - Daffy Doodles (Robert McKimson)".