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A portfolio type for featuring items in your portfolio.

Bloch’s Gewicht-schnellrechner

Portfolio 1

A mechanical nomogram for weight calculations

The Ross Precision Computer

Portfolio 3

Accurate to five decimal places!

Torsion wire delay line memory

Portfolio 5

A forgotten storage technology

The Genaille-Lucas financial rods

Portfolio 7

An ingenious way of calculating with sticks

Martin’s huge multiplication table

Portfolio 9

A tool from the time of Napoleon

Lalanne’s glass slide rule

Portfolio 11

An unusual but sensible choice

Jacob Zedak’s wooden slide rule

Portfolio 13

Very nicely made!

The Data Scaler Proportional Rule

Portfolio 15

A Gerber Variable Scale clone

The Controller slide rule family

Portfolio 17

All four of them!

Pretty as a picture!

Portfolio 19

The Arnault-Paineau calculator

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