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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