Lots of the racing scenes of that movie were filmed at Riveside and a whole
bunch of the Cal Club people were in it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "elliottd" <elliottd@look.ca>
To: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>;
"John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>; <cartravel@pobox.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>; <try0548@rit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Cylinder Head Flow - Slide Rule
> Did you know that Nevil Shute who wrote the racing story "On the Beach"
> which they made into a movie in 1959 was also a Mathematician. For two
> summers as a student (summer jobs) he calculated the polynomial equations
> for the British dirigibles named the R-100 and the R-101. They used
> sliderules that were very long - like 10 feet long if I remember
correctly.
> This is all in a book he wrote appropriately entitled "Slide Rule". He
was
> quite an author and engineer. Click for more :-
>
> http://www.nevilshute.org/Engineering/JohnAnderson/topdown1.php
>
> Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A, Montreal, Canada
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
> To: "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>; "John Herrera"
> <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>; <cartravel@pobox.com>
> Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>; <try0548@rit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Cylinder Head Flow
>
>
> > > This is so much fun I may have to unlimber my turbocharged solar
> > >powered slide rule.
> >
> > My youngest daughter has a Ph.D. in Math and is an associate professor
of
> > same. Not too long ago she was home for a few days and i showed her my
old
> > Post Versalog. She had never seen a slide rule! What's the world coming
> to?
> >
> >
> > uncle jack
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