In the Summer '07 issue of "Tech Topics" (magazine of the Ga. Tech Alum.
Assoc.), is a photo of Tech-related artifacts collected over the years since ca.
1904 by a family, several of whose members were students/grads. Prominent
in the photo is an "A.W. Faber's Calculating Rule" with a person's name and
"1908" written on the exposed end of the half tube-box.
The rule appears to be a typical Mannheim design with scales A=B, CI, C=D.
No cursor is visible.

Since the family came from a small town in Georgia, I would infer that the
rule was most likely purchased in Atlanta. So, imported sliderules were
apparently fairly "widely available" in the 1908 time-frame. I make that surmise
because Atlanta was certainly not a "big city", nor a "high-tech" hub, in those
days, where one would find a great variety of "high-tech"goods for sale. Of
course, the alternative explanation could simply be that Faber rules were
available "everywhere slide rules were sold" because they were THE chief
manufacturer world-wide.

To hell with Georgia! (Any Tech grads out there will know what that means.)
Cyron Lawson



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