Book Description

Reprints of slide rule instructions, for the use of collectors, educators and students. All ephemera is currently archived in the International Slide Rule Museum Library. Instruction manuals, for the most part, are no longer available, Slide rule production ended in the mid 1970's and instruction manuals have deteriorated and are rapidly disappearing over time. The slide rule models themselves , now considered vintage math instruments, are still in abundance, and in the hands of private collections, museums, and many family homes. These volumes, organized by manufacturers, provide instructions for the most popular models, as well as some special designs. The scans from the faded and wrinkled manuals, have been "restored" digitally in order improve their clarity to provide decent black printing on white pages. All "noise", speckles, staple marks, etc., have been cleaned off the original scans, to improve the reader's experience. Where required, as in this volume, permissions have been obtained from manufacturers that are still in existence. Hemmi Instruction Books in Volume 1: Note: This collection of instruction manuals will only list those books and slide rules labeled explicitly as "Sun Hemmi" branded slide rules.Overview of the Hemmi Slide Rule Company. Hemmi Manufacturing Process, pre-1946. Hemmi date codes. Book 1 - Instruction Book for the use of Hemmi's Bamboo Slide Rule(Duplex Type), Revised 1957 edition, (115 pages)Model Numbers: 250, 251, 255, 275, 256, 259, 279, 154, 153, and 200. Book 2 - Instruction Book for the use of Hemmi's Bamboo Slide Rule (Mannheim Type), Revised 1958 edition, 76 pages.Improved Mannheim: 30, 32, 34R, 34RK, 50W, 2640, and 40RK.Models "Reitz System": 74, 66, 64 and 70. Models with folded scales: 2634 and 45 (2664). Special Models: 130 & 136 Darmstadt, 80K & 86K Elektro, and 2690 Stadia. Book 3 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi 257 Slide Rule - for Chemical Engineering, c1970, (46 pages). Book 4 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi 130W, 135 and 136 Slide Rules. Advanced Darmstadt, c1970, (51 pages). Book 5 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi 255D 275D Expert Electrical Engineer, Duplex, c1970, (55 pages). Book 6 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi 259D 260 279D, General Engineering, Duplex, c1970, (51 pages). Book 7 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi 266 Electronics, Duplex, c1970, (67 pages). Book 8 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi P262 (Log-Log) for Experienced Engineers, Plastic Duplex, c1970, (47 pages). Book 9 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi 301 Control Engineering for Frequency Response Computation (12 pages). Book 10 - Instruction Manual for Hemmi P452 Business and Commerce, System H. Kroon, Plastic Duplex, c1970, (20 pages).