IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the late 19th and early 20th ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Maurice Hartung of the University of ...
DE MORGAN, in article “Slide Rule” in the Penny Cyclopaedia, points out that though Gunter first used a logarithmic scale, the real inventor of the logarithmic slide was Oughtred. “In the year 1630 he ...
Used by engineers for centuries, they were displaced by pocket calculators and all but forgotten until Mr. Shawlee created a subculture of obsessives and cornered the market. By Alex Traub For about ...