Posted on 06/27/2018 8:30:06 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
I still have the sliderule that my chemistry teacher in HS forced us to buy in 1976! Even though many of us had calculators, and they were coming down in price a lot by then, he wanted us to learn how to use it in case we didn’t have a calculator, or the battery died.
The only thing that I use it for now is as a straight edge, or a ruler. It ought to be in a museum, next to an abacus.
Nothing special. There are several for sale on Ebay for a few bucks. Back in the drawer. :<)))))
We’ve got your statue in Milwaukee!
http://uwm.edu/mkepolonia/kosciuszko-park/
It was refurbished a couple of years ago to great fanfare!
I still have my slide rule. It is a Sun Hemmi Chemical Engineers slide rule. Paid $16 HK dollars ($2.50 in 1960)when I was in Hong Kong. Had to get permission from profs to use it on exams because the back side had temperature and pressure conversions plus atomic weights.
Many of my Intro Chemistry students today make numerous calculator errors on exams, particularly problems involving scientific notation. When all you have is a slide rule, you need to know the basic rules involving manipulation of exponents. Sometimes I am thankful for having to struggle with a slide rule, during my early college years.
I never learned how to read a slide-rule, but I am a Machinist and own several micrometers, and can still read them.
I started to say something, realized that you wrote 57-61 and thought better of it.
The oldest thing I have is my field jacket from military boot camp in 1977.
LOL...two of my best friends are engineers. Thanks for the ammo!
I’m a professional engineer and I still have that dream. It freaks me out.
“Can we NEVER get away from the trauma of school?”
Well for those of us who have been teaching for 30 years, the answer is no!
One of my professors is 95. He retired from teaching at 90 but still participates in seminars!
I was never a slide rule guy but I still have my HP48SX that I bought new in 1990. Programmable and infrared data transfer. Very cool...
Mu son wants to go the astronautical engineering route but is a fantastic artist. Actually wants to design wings and lifting surfaces.
And he has some of the most incredible line drawing abilities I have ever seen. Calligraphy is good also.
Class of 81. I still have this dream where I walk into class and they're passing out Blue Books for an exam I'm completely unprepared for. For years I would wake up in a panic.
I also have a dream that I'm back working at a job I hated when I worked there and I'm nearly naked. Who knows? But man...I HATED that job.
What’s with the t-shirts?
Each one has some incomprehensible scene on the front of them that elicits laughter from other engineers.
Finnish Hymns?
That is actually a true dream I have had several times. SCARY.
LOL! Love the old calculators. I was a Junior in High School, and there was a GIANT (at least 6-foot), working slide rule hanging from the wall in Chemistry lab. That’s where everyone learned to use them. Only - it was 1976, the fateful year that the TI30 came out, and we never had to learn! Whew!
Do you remember Royal typewriters? Well, they got into the calculator business, and I got one of those because it was cheaper. Blue/Green LCD, Four functions plus a % key. No memory, no square root. But a lot better than a slide rule!
When I got to college, I bought a “wallet” style CASIO. THIN! With several functions, base 10 and natural logs, all geometric tables, and... 32 key-stroke programmable! Just enough to put in the quadratic formula, if you were good. WOOHOO! I had ARRIVED.
Those were the days.
That is funny and has happened to me over the years. I would wake up with a start and then slowly remember that I had graduated years ago.
Good stuff, thanks for the laughs.
Not an engineer, but I have dreams like that ALL THE TIME. I was a student that usually slid by, not preparing but doing well enough to get by, A-B-C student. My dreams included sitting tests for which I wasnt prepared all the way to just being really late for work.......I WISH they would stop.......Ive been retired for 4 years!
A mathematician and an engineer are at the end of a long hallway, with a gameshow host.
The host tells them - behind the curtain at the other end of this hall is a wonderful prize! Here are the rules: When the whistle blows, you go half the distance to the prize, stop, count to ten, go half the remaining distance, stop, count to ten, and repeat until you get there. First one there gets the prize.
The host waves his arm, the curtain parts, and a BEAUTIFUL Victoria’s Secret Model is revealed. The whistle blows, and the mathematician just starts shaking his head. The engineer immediately starts running.
The host asks the mathematician, “Why aren’t you moving?” He says, “It’s an infinite series. I can approach, but I’ll never get there!”
The host calls after the engineer, “Why are you running? You’ll never get there!” He yells back, “I can get close enough!”
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