Early Science & Technology

Does your high school slide rule still fascinate you? Or perhaps you have just discovered slide rules and wonder what they were all about. If so, check out one of the books below devoted to slide rules. For those whose mind has a mechanical bent, don't miss Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements, one of our best sellers. We also offer books on scientific instruments from engineers and surveyors tools to a translation of Nicholas Bion's classic 18th century work on mathematical instruments.

• Animal-Powered Machines

• Berger Handbook 1900, Engineers &
    Surveyors Instruments

• Calculating on Slide Rule and Disc

• Clock Repairing as a Hobby

• Compass Chronicles

• The Construction and Principal Uses of    Mathematical Instruments

• Discovering Oil Lamps

• Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical    Movements

• Gurley Manual 1874: American Engineer's &    Surveyor's Instruments

• A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and    Allied Instruments

• Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World

• Leonardo on Flight

• Making a Copper Weathervane

• Rebuilding the Little Giant Power Hammer

• The Rule Book

• The Slide Rule, Simplified, Explained and    Illustrated for the Mechanical Trades

• Slide Rules: A Journey Through Three
    Centuries

• Slide Rules: Their History, Models, and Makers

• Under the Sidewalks of New York