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by exikyut
2963 days ago
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Awesome. It's proving a little tricky to find a picture and/or more info about the Friden 55. All I'm getting is other models. Was it mechanical? (Hopefully some of them ended up in attics, they sound mildly interesting even if just from a historical-interest retrospective standpoint) |
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah...
It's fully mechanical and can do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. I saw one of these things work, and it was quite an experience. There's a YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKm9eM2BuM0
And a few people have published images of the service manual.
My dad said that while the Friden was accurate, it was not portable or quick, and he usually used his slide rule, notebook, and graph paper. For a chemist, slide rule accuracy was usually sufficient.