Group: sliderule Message: 45273 From: Maynard Wright Date: 04/08/2014
Subject: Re: Sighting - TV show "Manhattan"
Note that the cursor is missing. I saw a similar slide rule on Von Braun's
desk in Huntsville some years ago but I don't know whether it is the same one
that's shown here. He might have had more than one. I did when I was using
them for engineering calculations and hadn't yet considered the idea of
collecting them.

Maynard Wright


On Sunday, August 03, 2014 02:12:53 pm jayhawk999@... [sliderule] wrote:
> See this web site: for a pix of von Braun's slide rule. It appears to be a
> Rietz-Nestler rule.
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