Collector, promotes through exibits and educational courses the memory of old calculating devices and ancient navigation systems. Green during WWII.įor maximizing the fuel range of B-29 Gun during long over-water missions.Ĭreated after the B-29 crew that found the Japanese fleet ran out of gas This slide rule was used to find the elusive Japanese Note: Designed by necessity and implemented during WWII for B-29 Crews.įor determining the size of Japanese ships, used in conjunction with theī-29 Gun sights. More military images may be found on the Historical Photos, German Luftwaffe Crew Plotting Course Using Dreieckrechner WWII British WAAF with Weather Pilot Ballon Predicting Weather. German Enigma Being Decoded 1940 The Secret War by Brian Johnson 1979īBC TV Series The Great War - No25 Artillery Slide RuleĪir Traffic Controller The World At War Sep 1939-April 1944Ĭommunications Post Fort Bragg, By Bernard Hoffman, Life Instructor shows use of E6-B for Navigation Training at Kelley Field, TX (1942) Senior Sergeant Mikhail Kalashnikov (Kalasnyikov) the inventor of the automatic rifle named after him and designed in 1947 Some of these slide rule images are duplicated on their respective manufacturer or country pages.īritish RAF liaison officers at US 8th Air Force Bomber Command (1942) Naval Academy (USNA) mathematics program and served as the midshipmen's primary calculator at Annapolis until 1976. In 1929 the slide rule became a formal part The first West Point class to be issued electronic calculators was in 1979. Military Academy (USMA) using slide rules at West Point was in 1905. To be used throughout the decades following the war for peaceful missions. Load Adjuster Slide Rules used during WWII are located in the Aerospace Related Gallery as many continued Aviation and Flight computers, along with These slide rules were used in Artillery and Ranging as well as Photography in scaling targets.
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