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A portfolio type for featuring items in your portfolio.

The calculation of MADness

Portfolio 1

Nuclear blast slide rules from the cold war era

Oh, no! Can Tesseract save the plane?

Portfolio 3

A rare action comic for the ultimate geek

Chairman Mao’s guidance

Portfolio 5

A politically conscious slide rule from China

Build your own airplane!

Portfolio 7

The Hoffman Airplane Calculator

The Professor’s calculator

Portfolio 9

The R. H. Smith helical slide rule

The real thing, in cross-section

Portfolio 11

How to teach what makes things tick

The Jeffers Calculator

Portfolio 13

Keeping farm animals healthy through a nutritious diet!

The Pose-Marre pen slide rule

Portfolio 15

An elegant device of mysterious origins

Bloch’s Gewicht-schnellrechner

Portfolio 17

A mechanical nomogram for weight calculations

The Ross Precision Computer

Portfolio 19

Accurate to five decimal places!

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