Name: 1940's Stancor Cardboard Slide Rule
Uploaded: 2025-02-14T13:00:00+00:00
Duration: 5 min 47 s
Description: Despite being made from cardboard, this was a pretty powerful tool back in it's day. In this video we check out a cardboard slide rule that I found inside an old book a while back. We'll go over it's

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Health & Science Do It Yourself

Despite being made from cardboard, this was a pretty powerful tool back in it's day. In this video we check out a cardboard slide rule that I found inside an old book a while back. We'll go over it's features, and do a few simple calculations on it.

00:00 Overview
00:42 How it Work
01:52 Multiplying 2 times 4
02:23 Trailing Zeros and Decimals
03:35 Converting Inches to Metric
04:27 The Backside
05:24 Outro