Calculating a good price - slide rule fetches £9500 at auction

Readers old enough to remember using one at school may also recall Sam Cooke’s 1960 song in which he lamented “don’t know what a slide rule is for”. Today, few teenagers would know what one was.

Nearly 400 years after William Oughtred (1574-1660) invented the ingenious little mathematical com…

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