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Here is a better picture of my laboratory balance. It was made by F. Sartorius in Göttingen, Germany, probably around 1910. I bought it about 40 years ago.
It was made by F. Sartorius in Göttingen, Germany, probably around 1910.
Ironic that you display the slide rule with the quantitative scale....Quant Chem was the one class where the slide rule, accurate only to three places, did you no good.
You could always tell the engineering & architecture students walking around campus with the slide rules hanging from their belts, obviously proud with a "my slide rule's bigger than yours" mentality.
I am 65 and probably just missed the slide rule by a decade or so. Compact Texas Instruments calculators were the thing when I was in high school (1974-1977) and undergrad (1977-1981), and by the time I got to grad school around 1984, the Apple II and the IBM PC XT personal computers (floppy disks! 8-bit processors!) were out there in our labs, though calculators continued to be a thing for some years yet.
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