| 单词 | slide rule |
| 例句 | Thus Galileo’s sector was a primitive theodolite, slide rule and protractor all in one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What he’d give never to have to see a slide rule again for the rest of his life! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything that didn’t require books, or a slide rule. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They'd probably hide under their desks and cuddle with their slide rules for comfort. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sounds are the breathing of the dogs and clicking of the slide rule’s cursor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The parting in his short gray hair was almost unnaturally straight, and his narrow toothbrush mustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Time to replace those arrows in the talons of the American eagle with pencils and slide rules. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z When I first met Gail, polio seemed as extinct as a slide rule or a party line. Did the Pandemic Change Summer Reading for Good? I Hope So. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Through the morning and early afternoon, wielding his slide rule, Fermi slowly took the pile critical, with a characteristically Fermian break for lunch. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Among the once-humdrum goods that have become collectibles are ashtrays, paper airplane tickets, slide rules and vertical filing cabinets. Reading Between the Design Lines 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z At the burial site Ms. Walls, Mr. Walls and Mr. Taylor said a few words and placed a notepad, pencil, slide rule and compass on top of the coffin. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z With an abacus and a slide rule, earlier helpmeets, you had to know something of the mathematical process. Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Over a four-decade career that began with slide rules and moved into the age of computer modeling, Ms. Norwood became known as a resourceful problem solver who often hit upon simple but effective solutions. Virginia Norwood, pioneered Earth imagery as ‘Mother of Landsat,’ dies at 96 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Over a four-decade career that began with slide rules and moved into the age of computer modeling, Norwood became known as a resourceful problem solver who often hit upon simple but effective solutions. This week’s passages 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In other places, however, he exhibits some self-awareness that real-world headlines aren’t always best met with slide rules and scientific calculators. Review | Neil deGrasse Tyson tries punditry, with less-than-stellar results 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z There’s always a handful of top prospects who make the team out of training camp, and the NHL “slide rule” comes into play. Untangling the different paths to the NHL for Kraken prospects and others 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He last sat a maths exam in 1946 when he used a slide rule, but this time he had a calculator and a magnifying glass to help with his poor eyesight. Cambridgeshire man, 92, passes GCSE maths exam with top mark 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z He had a knack for math—“I used to do slide rule speed competitions,” he confesses—and majored in physics at Texas A&M University, College Station. ‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe mysterious region beyond our Solar System 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z For that exam, he said, he brought a slide rule with him. Cambridgeshire man, 92, sits GCSE maths exams 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “I was good with slide rules, pencil and paper and really enjoyed it,” he said. A Classic New England Rally Is Revived, Minus the Mud 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Shaw noted the intent of the slide rule was to protect sliding ball carriers who are deemed defenseless. Fake slides now against rules after Pickett’s trick vs Wake 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The slide rules and log tables used to design it had been pushed aside by supercomputers, which enabled engineers to test and tweak virtual aircraft designs comparatively cheaply and quickly. Can Supersonic Air Travel Fly Again? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Despite receiving a knighthood in 1983 for his contributions to the UK’s computer industry, and being a pioneer in the field of consumer electronics, Sinclair preferred his slide rule to a calculator. Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX Spectrum personal computer, has died 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z This was before computer graphics or computer modeling, when architects and engineers worked on a drafting table with a T-square and slide rule. The jewel of the 1964 Olympics: The Yoyogi National Stadium 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Tange used only a slide rule and his imagination. Man born in Hiroshima lights 1964 Tokyo Olympic cauldron 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z After takeoff, he grabbed his “whiz wheel,” a circular slide rule that can calculate flight distance and time of arrival. Dubuque pilot transports medical supplies and patients 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The Apollo 11 mission was a case study in resourcefulness and improvisation, accomplished using pencils, slide rules, and analog genius. Looking Back at People Watching the Apollo 11 Mission 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z He entered the new arena in its early days, when the slide rule or the mechanical calculator were mainstays of computation. Fernando Corbató dies at 93; MIT scientist fostered the digital revolution — and the computer password 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z “He called some people in his office. He says, ‘We’d like to have some sort of computing device, perhaps to replace the slide rule. Jerry Merryman, co-inventor of handheld electronic calculator, dies at 86 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z “He was really into mechanical calculators, like the circular slide rule.” After decades of silence, L.A.'s Triforium becomes the 'pipe organ of light' its creator meant it to be — for three nights - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z If R.F.K. came across as a bare-knuckle fighter converted to humility, Newsom presents an image that an adviser describes as “pretty boy with a slide rule.” Gavin Newsom, the Next Head of the California Resistance 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “I was the pencil pusher, doing a lot of research. My state of the art tools were a slide rule and a Frieden computer. We were taking the theoretical and making it real.” Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the Native American engineer who helped send us to space 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z He minced few words when talking about its importance and that of its designer, Tange, whose tools were slide rules and his imagination. Tokyo’s 1964 Olympics echo through the city’s 2020 games 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z And, in a case of what today might be called digital disruption, the invention of electronic calculator in the 1970s destroyed Faber-Castell’s sideline making slide rules virtually overnight. Pencil-maker Faber-Castell sharpens up for digital age 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Fermi positioned himself at the base, calling out orders and making calculations with a slide rule. The atomic age began with a secret test 75 years ago. Meet the last surviving witness. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Not exactly the image of the crew-cut, straight-arrow military men like the ones who brought back Apollo 13 with their slide rules. Astronaut Scott Kelly details his extraordinary year aboard the International Space Station 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z “This was all done one slide rules and calculators,” Dean says of the engineering team. A new book explores the CIA’s crazy plan to snatch a Soviet sub from the bottom of the ocean 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z On Friday, Shetterly said: “We are living in a present that they willed into existence with their pencils, their slide rules, their mechanical calculating machines and, of course, their brilliant minds.” Hidden Figures mathematician returns to open Nasa facility bearing her name 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z And, in a case of what today might be called digital disruption, the invention of electronic calculator in the 1970s destroyed Faber-Castell’s sideline making slide rules virtually overnight. Pencil-maker Faber-Castell sharpens up for digital age 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Air Chief Marshal Arthur 'Bomber' Harris complained, “Are we fighting this war with weapons or slide rules?” Winston Churchill’s essay on alien life found 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Last year, again in New York, Rizzo met Jim Joyce in the tunnel to voice his displeasure with the veteran umpire’s interpretation of the slide rule. Mike Rizzo has two years to get the Nationals to the World Series. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Nowhere is this is more apparent than in the treatment of quarterbacks, who are protected by slide rules, and now rules that produce 15-yard personal fouls for hitting from the shoulders up or knees down. NFL players left to question clean hits on quarterbacks 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z What do you think of the new slide rule? 30 Seconds With Cal Ripken Jr. 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z When the Cubs visited Citi Field last week, they taped a one-page reminder to a wall just outside their dugout that simplified the new slide rule. Steven Wright Snagged an All-Star Spot by a Fingertip 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z He was on the job for so long that the span he designed with that slide rule is no more. After more than half a century, bridge designer calls it quits. Maybe. 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Remember the good old days when a “pocket protector” didn’t refer to an offensive lineman and a “slide rule” didn’t involve baseball? Maybe this bear should have walked into a bar instead 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But sterling's plunge against the dollar, compounded by the current political uncertainty, may mean that bean counters at the Ministry of Defence re-run their slide rules over these contracts. Farnborough Airshow: industry expects fewer aircraft orders - BBC News 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z James Loney was called out by the umpires, according to Collins, for making contact with Peterson above the knees at second base on a double-play attempt, a violation of the new slide rules. Matt Harvey and the Mets Take a Step Back 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Any woman who opens her book with the line “There is nothing in the world more perfect than a slide rule” already has my heart. A scientist’s uncommon bond with her odd lab-partner-for-life 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Radio silence from ol’ Goose so far this week, but only because he’s probably sitting in his recliner, paralyzed with rage over baseball’s new slide rule. Bryce Harper will make baseball fun again. You better believe it | DJ Gallo 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Clark touched on several other topics Monday, including the length of the regular season, the new second-base slide rule, qualifying contract offers, one-game playoff series and teams tanking games for more draft pool money. Players’ union chief expects labor talks to go smoothly 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But eight engines along the wings still connect to the cockpit by yards of cables and pulleys, and the navigator often charts a course with a slide rule. After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Before the scanner, that meant 40 hours with a slide rule and engineering software building a digital 3-D model, then piping that model into a series of computerized milling machines. Bemidji shop resurrects WWII planes, flaws and all 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Field was taken with the rudimentary tools of polling: questionnaires, punch cards, slide rules, card-counting sorters. Mervin Field, influential public opinion pollster in California, dies at 94 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z They were originally based at White Sands, New Mexico, but moved to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, in 1950 where they used early computers and slide rules to design the Saturn V. German-born US rocket expert Oscar Holderer dies at 95 - BBC News 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Employer demand for people who are a whizzes at Excel far surpasses the demand for people who excel with their slide rule! 5 Qualities Every Employer Wants in a Job Candidate 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Nicole White, 31, a weapons officer with her hair in an unruly bun and an energy drink sitting next to her slide rule, called the pilot on the radio. After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Now that he’s switched out his slide rule for the laser scanner, Wold won’t have to lay awake and night and worry. Bemidji shop resurrects WWII planes, flaws and all 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z He even invented a device called the “arithmeter” — a 30-foot slide rule, more or less, wrapped around a spinning drum — that crunched the numbers when the user turned a crank. Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z A slide rule is analog; an abacus is digital. What Computer Innovation and Fracking Have in Common [Excerpt] 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z He wrote that Sidney Weinberg, a Wall Street legend and Goldman chairman, was awed by his dexterity with a slide rule. John C. Whitehead, a Leader in Finance and Government, Dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Back at a time when these types of calculations were done on a slide rule, he made an error, and the feed was off measure. If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z There is no slide rule, no algorithm that guarantees profitability. The NFL Can Learn From The Spotify Expansion 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z They used tape measures and compasses to size up passages, crunching the data on a slide rule. Under Rainier’s crater, a natural laboratory like no other 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Rocketdyne engineers were at the forefront of developing engines in the days of slide rules and drafting tables, before advanced computers took a central role. Political turmoil could give California rocket firm edge over Russians 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z For some reason, Barber decided to review his own call at home — checking to see if Zunino had violated the new home plate slide rules — after a brief discussion with A’s manager Bob Melvin. On 12th-inning homer, Mariners suffer first loss 2014-04-04T06:24:30Z Or IBM in the 1960s as computer technology overtook slide rules, manual databases and bookkeeping. in the 1980s as personal computers became commonplace. Facebook - The One Stock to Own in 2014 2014-01-08T21:34:00Z Let me leave the ladies and gentlemen of the slide rules. Heseltine: HS2 is 'an act of faith' 2013-11-12T05:10:30Z He reckoned it would need 60,000 people working with slide rules to predict tomorrow's weather before it arrived. Man who invented weather forecasting 2013-07-31T23:27:40Z "It was she who was working hundreds of hours with a slide rule sitting at her dining table… a cigarette burning at her elbow, poring over the few published inscriptions, looking and looking for patterns." The unsung heroine who helped decode Crete's ancient script 2013-06-05T23:25:15Z An amateur musician and keen watercolourist, he was a special sort of artist - a man who created art through engineering, and with the aid of logbooks and slide rules, and science. The man behind Jaguar's curves 2013-06-05T01:30:42Z Armed with briefcases and calculators, they arrived on Wednesday to run a slide rule over Britain's moribund economy and a recovery that they find is slower than 23 of the 33 advanced economies they monitor. Queen's speech: sound and fury signifying nothing 2013-05-08T18:47:18Z The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rules. Can Science Fiction Writers Inspire the World to Save Itself? 2013-05-07T15:15:02.930Z Baseball may have been more subject to slide rules and stat tricks thanks to there being far more big money in that sport, but cricket could be broken down. Nate Silver: 'Prediction is a really important tool, it's not a game' 2013-05-03T17:00:05Z Indeed, this was nothing like Thursday, when the upset over a physically imposing New Mexico team riled up the Harvard twitterrati and sparked dreams of nets somehow being cut down with a slide rule. Arizona hands Harvard 74-51 thumping | West Regional 2013-03-24T03:03:04Z The new-school statistical guys howled and brandished their slide rules in arguing the Angels’ Mike Trout was an all-around better player and supremely awesome in the ways that matter to the new generation. Leading Off: M.V.P. Voters Believe Their Eyes — Leading Off 2012-11-16T16:26:02Z “They were using slide rules to crunch numbers,” said Mr. Klotz, and relying on limited historical weather data to define a worst-case flood. Storm Showed Vulnerability of City’s Tunnels 2012-11-10T02:03:44Z The mayor went on to explain the workings of a slide rule. At Public School 36 in Queens, Chancellor Dennis Walcott Is ‘Poppy’ to Students 2012-09-07T01:00:11Z The mayor went on to explain the concept of a slide rule. City Room: At a New School, a Math Lesson From the Mayor 2012-09-06T14:51:27Z It was soon forgotten as Drogba set up the equalizer with a perfect slide rule pass through a packed defense. Goal: Drogba Provides Hope for Fans of Chinese Club 2012-08-29T16:40:42Z “I don’t wake up each morning making slide rule judgments about whether it is the right thing to do,” he said in an interview in the Olympic Park. The Saturday Profile: Olympics Chairman Sebastian Coe Seeks Victory Lap 2012-07-21T04:52:58Z As a child, Mr. Bloomberg was a nerdy but middling student, president of the Medford High School slide rule club and briefly in charge of collecting dues from fellow students. Bloomberg?s Hometown, Medford, Mass., Struggles to Keep His Attention 2012-03-18T23:34:13Z It’s done with slide rules, charts, graphs and calculators rather than blood, sweat and tears. Ventre: And the BCS playoff winner would be ... 2011-12-14T08:07:21Z No, I’m not referring to the guys in the 1950’s who wore pocket protectors for their leaking pens or carried slide rules on their belts. RadioShack, Like Starbuck's, Goes Back to Go Forward 2011-08-15T16:03:27Z They wore white shirts with skinny ties and used a slide rule called the "Rand bomb damage effect calculator" to estimate megadeaths. Paul Baran, the Anti-Strangelove 2011-03-31T21:00:09Z Recently, Blackstone has been rumoured to be running a slide rule over nursing homes operator Southern Cross and London-based property company Minerva. Blackstone eyes UK firms after raising massive $15bn war chest 2011-01-30T00:07:04Z In the old days, statisticians used actuarial tables and slide rules to help with all of the decimals and division; ranking quarterbacks and calculating mortgages required the exact same skill set. Tanier: Rodgers is good, but that passer rating is absurd 2011-01-27T06:31:59Z Bidders are running the slide rule over several companies already owned by rival private equity shops, following a slew of recent so-called "secondary buyouts" in this and other sectors. European healthcare buyouts show signs of life 2010-05-21T15:21:00Z They ranged from astrolabes to slide rules to planimeters to mechanical and electrical calculators to modern computers. 2010-02-04T11:00:00Z No mean task, armed in this case only with a slide rule and what engineering knowledge remained to him after thirty years of high finance. Deepfreeze He sat in the big chair with his feet sticking straight out in front of him and played with a slide rule. What Rough Beast? We're one step beyond the politician's rule of thumb but not up to the point where we can use slide rules. The Sensitive Man The "apparatus" in any Psi lab is no more complicated than a folding screen, some playing cards, perhaps a deck of Rhine ESP cards and a slide rule. Modus Vivendi The slide rules got a little more precise over the years, the mechanical calculators capable of handling one more digit. 2010-02-04T11:00:00Z Moriarty was muttering to himself, figuring with slide rule, pencil and paper. The Leech He broke off and began fiddling with the slide rule again. What Rough Beast? A slide rule should be used for the arithmetical operations, as it works to the accuracy obtainable in practice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Everything figured out by slide rules an’ such—it’s civilized, but it ain’t human! Space Platform In total, of five hundred and twenty chances, I was right on two hundred and seventy-three, or fifty-two point two per cent of the time, according to Shari's slide rule. Card Trick I swallowed, and took out my notebook and pencil, and laid my pocket slide rule in front of me. The Professional Approach Then he brought in some books on mathematics and physics and other things, and a bunch of slide rules, calculators, and junk. Vanishing Point Plug in this modulator, add an oscillation—Let's see, where's that slide rule, what quantities do you want for— "What are you doing?" The Burning Bridge The Platform was designed by engineers and physicists and people with slide rules. Space Platform He spent some glorious and all but sleepless weeks, greasy, dirty, living in a jungle of haywired apparatus with a restless slide rule. Security I always put the slide rule out where the inventor can see it to remind him that he is talking to another technical man, not just a lawyer. The Professional Approach He readjusted the slide rule and slid the hairline over a bit. Islands of Space "She's been kicking around under foot ever since she was knee high to a duck—we gave her her first lessons on a slide rule." Spacehounds of IPC The division can, of course, be performed almost instantaneously and with much less danger of error by the use of a slide rule or a division table. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Many different forms of slide rules are now on the market. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He dug out a slide rule and a pencil and pad and sat down with his back to the back of the pilot's seat, under the light. Four-Day Planet He was tapping his head with his slide rule and frowning at a blackboard scrawled with equations when Bud dropped in for a visit. Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung He gave a pocket case, containing writing tools, slide rule and magnifier, to the bearded man on the other side of Dallona. Last Enemy These passengers, generally speaking, are oddballs carrying attaché cases or eager young men carrying miniature slide rules. The Fourth R To get a handy long scale Professor G. Fuller has constructed a spiral slide rule drawn on a cylinder, which admits of reading to three and four figures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The use of a slide rule will make this transference to a new average very easy. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners Why, they could sit down with pencils and slide rules and start working differential calculus and it wouldn’t convince him.” Little Fuzzy Grabbing pencil and slide rule, he began to dash off page after page of diagrams and equations. Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X These arrivals went at their project with stop watches and slide rules. The Fourth R For various purposes special adaptations of the slide rules are met with—for instance, in various exposure meters for photographic purposes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" They plotted one, two, three, and then four points during the target's climb; then one of the crew grabbed a slide rule. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects A Course in the slide rule and logarithms. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December Simplex fingering slide rule for baritone and euphonium. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 January - June Simplex fingering slide rule for flute and piccolo. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 January - June General Strachey introduced slide rules into the Meteorological Office for performing special calculations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The log log duplex trig slide rule no. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 July - December I have since investigated this matter and determined that many of today's teenagers have never seen a slide rule, either…. The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 Simplex fingering slide rule for basses and Sousaphones. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 January - June A complete analysis of the pulling, feeding power and the proper speeding of the various machine tools throughout the place with a view of making a slide rule for properly running each machine. Shop Management At some blast furnaces a slide rule has been used for determining the amount of coke and flux required for any weight of ore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" I have since investigated this matter and determined that many of today's teenagers have never seen a slide rule, either.... The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 But by an intricate mathematical process Tom solved the problem, so that it was only necessary to set certain pointers and levers along a slide rule in the cockpit of the craft. Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air |
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