<p>Have at it!</p>
<p>Confuse your children.</p>
<p>I have a ton of slide rules - I collected them!</p>
<p>Oh shucks. I thought you were going to link us to some article.</p>
<p>We have a circular slide rule here. Plus at least several old regular slide rules that were given to DH the engineer.</p>
<p>What to do worth them…? Hmmm…</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
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<p>That’s probably already been done, so now if you’re lucky you can confuse your grandchildren.</p>
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<p>Sell it on ebay.</p>
<p>Hang it on the wall? (Geek art? I would do this.)</p>
<p>Present it as an award to the top math student at your local high school?</p>
<p>Plant it in your garden?</p>
<p>Isn’t there some TV show where they look at antique tools–and people have to guess what the tool was for/what is does? (DocT–the guys from American Pickers will be at your house shortly. . .)</p>
<p>Could you glue four of them together for the base of a lamp?</p>
<p>My dad gave his dad’s slide rule to D2 as a hs graduation present this spring (not the only thing she received from her grandparents, fortunately!). So it belonged to her great-grandfather. It did not go off to college with her… I have been wondering what to do with it…</p>
<p>This is one of the few personal items my son took with him to college. Who knows why. I gave it to him as a sort of gag gift a couple of years ago. Maybe can be used as a drawer divider?</p>
<p>I point out to my AP Chemistry students that their parents bought them wonderful TI-84 calculators, which supposedly have more processing power than the computers aboard the Mercury spacecraft.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my parents bought me a stick…</p>
<p>Oh , but what we could do with those sticks!!! There’s a great scene in Apollo 13, where somebody working to bring the 3 astronauts alive is briefly shown using a slide rule.</p>
<p>Adjustable propping device. Be careful the place is not too hot and humid because it’ll warp.</p>
<p>We had computers to bring Apollo 13 home…worth a whole 64 K… your little hand held calculator for 2 dollars now a days has probably more memory. The slide rule and team behind it fortunately had a lot more brain power to bring them home.</p>
<p>I was thinking if I had enough of them, I could make a doll house. Also, modify it and turn it into a flyswatter?</p>
<p>Use it as a prop when passing on family stories about the rocket scientists in the family.</p>
<p>Tie red or green ribbon on it and use it as a Christmas ornament.</p>
<p>You could make use of it in a Rube Goldberg style invention.</p>
<p>I give them to my daughter- she collects them!</p>
<p>You could beat veal with it to make piccata.</p>
<p>Gawd, if I could have imagined that, mini, in 9th grade.</p>
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divide
logarithm
exponential
square root
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cube root
cube</p>