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A portfolio type for featuring items in your portfolio.

The small Small Calculator

Portfolio 1

A full-fledged slide rule 5 cm in diameter

Victorian Virtual Reality

Portfolio 3

Mesdag’s Panorama

How the Slide Rule got its Cursor

Portfolio 5

Three centuries of innovation

A homebrew Single Sideband transmitter

Portfolio 7

A photo-essay for ham radio geeks

The gentleman and the carpenter

Portfolio 9

Two Coggeshall variants compared

Leib Stern’s slide rule

Portfolio 11

An unusual slide rule from an unusual source

Krüger’s calculating pencil case

Portfolio 13

A computer for every child, 1909 style

Gunter’s rule

Portfolio 15

One step before the slide rule

Webb’s Adder

Portfolio 17

One curiously shaped calculator!

Biorhythmic calculators

Portfolio 19

Where computing meets Pseudoscience

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