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Who could imagine that the slide rule, once ubiquitous in high school mathematics classes, would be used to figure the odds at horse races or to calculate the alcohol content of a barrel of beer? But ...

While some (math-phobics) still may relish the simple beauty and non-threatening functionality of the abacus, there are those who have made the transition to more challenging computing gadgets—many ...

The cutting-edge tools in engineering have evolved in the past four decades from slide rules to spread sheets to computer programs that do the math. Rodney Huffman, 63, and Richard Neu, 65, have lived ...

We recently ran a post about engineers being worse, better, or the same than they “used to be” and it got me thinking. Of course “used to be” is in the eyes of the beholders. To me, that’s the 1950s ...