OK, it's not an actual slide rule, but in a 1906 film taken of San Francisco there's
a Keuffel and Esser (drafting and surveying supplies) wagon shown driving through the
rubble after the earthquake.

You can download it off the net. Go to www.loc.gov, click on American Memories, then
search, then "limit search to motion pictures" then type in Keuffel and click the
search button. There's a several minute silent film documentary (split into two
parts) about the earthquake. The K&E wagon is at the end of the second part. You
can download it in either realmedia, mpeg or quicktime format. I didn't try the
realmedia. Don't bother with the quicktime - the picture's too small to read. It
only took a couple hours to download the mpeg version via a dialup connection. No
cable modem or dsl available out in the boonies where I live (yet).

The writeup about the film only refers to the wagon as Kueffel, but if you look real
close it looks like it says Esser behind the wheel.

Duane Croft


tjstanton wrote:

>
> For the film buffs in this group, here is a challenge:
>
> When, or in what picture, is the slide rule *first seen* in use as
> part of a story line?
>
> Bonus Question: What industrial or documentary footage exists on
> slide rules? Any idea when the public first sees one on screen in any
> shape/make/form?
>
> (I do not have an answer BTW. I would expect documentary footage
> comes first...)
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