Greetings to the list!
I've been re-watching Apollo 13 (which I got for my birthday this year) and I've been trying to identify the slide rule used therein.
Actually, there are two SRs seen, but one is a duplex only seen in a long shot, so I have no hope of identifying it. The other is in a closeup, which gives many clues to its identity.
I spent many fruitless hours searching the web for slide rules which had a similar scale layout, but didn't find any that exactly matched.
It wasn't until the fifth or sixth time I had the SR freeze-framed on the screen that I noticed that it was a pocket rule, not a 10".
That helped me narrow it down to about three, but the one I found most closely corresponding to it was the Lafayette 99-7030, as pictured on Mike Konshak's excellent site Slide Rule Museum.
The only difference between Mike's picture and the one on the screen is that the one on the screen has a gauge mark at C (1.128) which Mike's picture doesn't have.
Does anyone know if this is a more recent Lafayette, or possibly a later version of the Relay/Ricoh OEM rule? Or if someone else made such a rule? I'm just curious.
Thanks for any assistance you can render in this quest.
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