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Welcome To The Sphere Research Slide Rule Site:
The Slide Rule Universe !

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Sphere Research Corporation
3394 Sunnyside Rd.
West Kelowna, BC, Canada V1Z 2V4
Phone: +1 (250) 769-1834
FAX:+1 (250) 769-4106
A great source for test equipment, repairs, calibrations, useful metrology information, and of course, SLIDE RULES!

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Original Artwork by: Larry Stewart, The Slide Rule Universe is a trademark of Sphere Research Corporation

The Slide Rule Universe reaches everywhere. Some of the most interesting spots in it are shown below. If you figure YOU belong here
E-Mail, and let us know!

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Like Slide Rules? Join the Oughtred Society!

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The Oughtred Society's
New Website

The Dutch Circle of of Slide Rule Collectors
has their own web site, now viewable

HERE A Multi-lingual site!

Visit Dick Lyon's
'Otis King's Patent Calculator' Pages
Learn about one of the most unusual slide rules.

UPDATED, this is the new home of this site.

Visit Drexel's
Math Newsletter

Visit the home of the

CLICK HERE to visit the Moonstick factory

Incredible MOONSTICK, a hexagonal slide rule for determining moon phases in the future or in the past.

Visit The Mad Hatter's Slide Rule Site
CLICK to Visit!

All kinds of fascinating stuff to see, from slide rule lessons to history.
Visit Paul Ross's

Slide Rule Trading Co.
Lots of spare parts,
Hemmi and other attractive
rules, and great Hemmi
slide rule archives.

CLICK to VISIT Dick Rose's Vintage Instrument site in the US. Those of you that have been looking for Dick's lists of slide rules and other vintage instruments can now find them all on line and searchable here at his new web site.

Mike's Slide Rule Museum for Hairy Eared Engineers
You have to love it, speaking as a Hairy Ear myself. This is Mike Konshak's new site, lots of great reference pics, drop by and visit. Have a look at the great slide rule wallpaper he has for your computer!

Click on the image to visit Nathan Zeldes' interesting website, everything from fractals and classic computing hardware to slide rules! Visit the History of Computing Exhibition to see some wonderful bits of calculating technology you may have forgotten.

CLICK to visit JFZAZZA Reglas De Calculo WEB
A wonderful site filled with extensive Faber Castell model and manual info in SPANISH!

This is the richest index of downloadable Spanish manuals on the web, a wonderful resource.

Visit Ron Manley's Slide Rule Site HERE in the UK. Some very useful info stored here, including unique price summaries from eBay for all slide rule sales. Worth a visit! This is Ron's NEW site location.

Visit the Astragal Press
Home of all kinds of
fascinating books,
and YES, NEW books
about SLIDE RULES!
CLICK HERE

Check out ERIC MARCOTTE's
Slide Rule website in Canada.
All kinds of useful info
and reference material.

Visit Clark McCoy's K+E Catalog Site
HERE. The on line archive of all things K+E, scanned for your research pleasure. A wealth of hard to find original K+E information stretching back through the last century.
Visit Rod Lovett's Slide Rule Site
HERE in the UK. Lots of Aristo model info (his main collecting interest), plus article indexes for numerous slide rule journals.
Visit Giovanni Pastore's Slide Rule Site
HERE in Italy. Interesting historical information in a very nice format. Multi-lingual site, this link is to the English section.
Visit Greg Scott's Slide Rule Site
HERE in Australia. Lots of great info and reference plus insight into his own collection, with considerable model detail.

Visit Our site, The Slide Rule Universe,
at Sphere Research
in BC, Canada.

Slide Rule Collectors & Gurus that you may want to contact for trades or sales:

Ted Hume --Hemmi/POST expert (see his info in the POST Archive).
Dick Rose --Collector & Contributor
Louis Gotlib --Collector & Teacher, happy to share teaching info for slide rules and class projects.
Tom Whiteway--Collector & Contributor.
Craig Kielhofer --Collector & Contributor & Co-moderator of the Slide Rule Mail List
Dave Crate --Collector & Contributor
Tom Savage --Collector & Contributor
John Porter --Collector & Contributor
Dick Lyon --Collector & Contributor, webmaster of the Otis King pages
Walter Shawlee 2 --Collector & Webmaster of the SRU

Want to be listed here ?, just E-Mail us, and we will add you in. All listings provided at our sole discretion.

Click to visit!	Buy a slide rule from our extensive on line marketplace, with restored classics, amazing new in the box rules, and low cost first student rules. We have something for everybody, even a swap and sell area for visitors.
Click to visit!	Learn to operate and care for your slide rule with these on line manuals and directions. Learn what scales mean, how to use them and how to restore or keep your rule in good condition.
Click to visit!	Tour our extensive archives of slide rule manufacturers and models from all over the world. Find out who made what, and what became of them after they stopped making slide rules. See how slide rules survive today in the form of slide charts still made in the millions annually.
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