Group: sliderule Message: 43249 From: Steve Treadwell Date: 01/09/2012
Subject: Re: Sighting
--- In sliderule@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Treadwell" <steve.t123@...> wrote:
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> Watching "Moon Machines" on SCI channel just now, about the development of the Saturn V rocket. About 18 minutes in there is an engineer using a slide rule. There was a close-up, but so blurry that I couldn't read the scales. Definitely a Pickett, white, 4 screw cursor, metal end bars with the narrow cursor window, rounded stator braces, I think. I froze the picture, and best I could guess from the general scale configuration it looked like an 800T, Log Log Synchro Scale.
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> Steve Treadwell
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PS - another slide rule shot in the same show, about 30 minutes in - this one was a PIC. I don't know the model number, but it was a pretty good close up, so someone familiar with PIC's would probably know the model. This same PIC SR was also in the second Moon Machines show, about the building of the lunar module - about 13 minutes into the show.

Steve Treadwell