{"id":3967,"date":"2019-08-17T16:37:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2019-08-17T16:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T20:37:02","slug":"whats-up-in-the-attic-august-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/?p=3967","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up in the Attic     August 17, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BACK TO THE FUTURE: 1955. A GREAT GIFT FOR SOMEONE WHO GRADUATED IN ENGINEERING PRIOR TO POCKET CALCULATORS (FIRST AVAILABLE IN EARLY 1970&#8217;s)?<br \/>\nThis K&amp;E Keuffel and Esser slide rule is a very rare find, what with its being in top condition, plus comes with an original manual, plus the leather carrying case which would fasten to a student&#8217;s belt, and even the classy green box it came in at the university store.<\/h2>\n<h2>This particular model is a Dual Base Log Log Decitrig, which was t<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">he high end model suitable for a course in electrical engineering. A competitive model was made by Pickett.<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<h2>This one pictured is available at the Angels Boutique in downtown Floyd VA for only $45. Check eBay for comparable instruments costing around $325.<\/h2>\n<h2>Despite its age and obsolescence, many computations, even today, could be done faster than someone punching buttons on a scientific pocket calculator. Its accuracy was good enough to put a man on the moon. For example, it was good enough to calculate the center of gravity for mechanical parts that made up the Apollo space capsule &#8211; I saw it being done.<a href=\"http:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3969\" src=\"http:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7016-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7016-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7016-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7016-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7016.jpg 1551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACK TO THE FUTURE: 1955. A GREAT GIFT FOR SOMEONE WHO GRADUATED IN ENGINEERING PRIOR TO POCKET CALCULATORS (FIRST AVAILABLE IN EARLY 1970&#8217;s)? This K&amp;E Keuffel and Esser slide rule is a very rare find, what with its being in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/?p=3967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelsintheattic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}