Slide rules and nomographs are the simplest, while naval gunfire control computers and large hybrid digital / analog computers were among the most complicated.

Slide rules were used by generations of engineers and other mathematically involved professional workers, until the invention of the pocket calculator.

Slide rules come in a diverse range of styles and generally appear in a linear or circular form with a standardized set of markings ( scales ) essential to performing mathematical computations.

( Slide rules used to number among the supplies, too, but nowadays even manual drafting, when it occurs, benefits from a pocket calculator or its onscreen equivalent.

* Slide rules

* 1961, Slip ' N ' Slide first manufactured by WHAM-O.

Slide cube projectors are no longer manufactured, but cubes, bulbs, and a few replacement parts are, and used projectors and cubes are readily available on eBay and elsewhere.

Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar.

* Slide Guitar for Beginners

Disney and Iwerks then found work as illustrators for the Kansas City Slide Newspaper Company ( which would later be named The Kansas City Film Ad Company ).

Jeff Elbel, writing for the Spin Control column in the Chicago Sun-Times, called the album " a late-career triumph " and remarked that Midnight Sun was the band's " second exceptional album in a row, and its best since 1990's landmark Circle Slide ".

A fight between James Stephenson, an African-American Navy veteran, and a white shopkeeper apparently ignited the event, and later that same day there was shooting, fighting, and rioting between whites and blacks in a part of Columbia known as " Mink Slide ", a name for the African-American business district.

The settlement was originally called " Slide ", for Slide Hill, in 1874.

A fight between James Stephenson, a black Navy veteran, and a white shopkeeper apparently ignited the event, resulting in various incidents of shooting, fighting, and rioting between whites and blacks in a part of Columbia known as " Mink Slide ", a name for the black business district.

Here the Thorp Gravels, which are named for the town of Thorp and the Thorp Glacial episode, are exposed along the ancient river channel in what is known as the " Slide Area ".

The music video produced for " Driftwood " features Moraz, although Mike Pinder was the one who played on the actual recording ; the video for " Steppin ' in a Slide Zone " simply shows the other four members without Pinder ( which was rather awkward as Pinder's keyboards featured extensively on the song, notably on the distinctive intro and during a solo section of the piece ).

He was known as " the King of the Slide Guitar " and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.

* HSLF ( Horrible Slide Layout Format ) – a pure Java implementation for Microsoft PowerPoint files.

Slide projectors, then known as magic lanterns and stereopticons, were a less common but especially effective display technique, more suitable for public exhibitions.

** Slide Hampton ( arranger ) for " Cotton Tail " performed by Dee Dee Bridgewater

Brisbane is the setting for the Australian TV series Slide.

In 1988, he moved out of his family home to live with Louise Jones, whom he described as his " soulmate " and for whom he wrote " Slide Away ".

* Large Format Slide Projector for use on stages, at large events, or for architectural and advertising installations where high light output is needed.

Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single " Iris ", they have had several other notable and popular singles include " Name " from 1995's A Boy Named Goo, " Broadway ", " Black Balloon " and " Slide " from 1998's Dizzy Up The Girl, which produced five top-10 singles, and " Here Is Gone ", " Sympathy " and " Big Machine " from 2002's Gutterflower.

Today, what was once the Dolphin's Lagoon is now the Sea Lions ' Rock, with three sea lions ( Clara, Kelpie and Pablo ) providing the entertainment for the current presentation labeled " Swim, Slide, and Splash!

Despite production models being made for testing, ultimately the LX was never released in Australia due to a lack of compatibility with Telstra's 3G 850Mhz network, however Telstra went ahead with selling the Slide after the Hiptop3 ; the Hiptop3 is now phased out.

On December 6, 2007, the Sidekick Slide was once again available for purchase.

It was available for sale again on December 12, 2008, however, T-Mobile has once again discontinued the Sidekick Slide.

In 2006, Q magazine voted Gallagher the 11th best singer of all time, citing songs such as " Live Forever ", " Lyla ", " Don't Go Away ", " Slide Away " and " Champagne Supernova " as examples of his best work.

After Eubanks moved to New York, he began performing with noted jazzmen such as Art Blakey ( 1980 – 81 ), Roy Haynes, Slide Hampton and Sam Rivers.

Some games are played without a rhyme, such as ' Slide ', and not all require the players to clap each other's hands, such as ' Sevens.

Often block parties involve barbecuing, lawn games such as Simon Says and group dancing such as the Electric Slide, the Macarena or line dancing.

He entertains the fans and has some trademark game antics, such as wiggling his tail, the Cha Cha Slide, the YMCA, etc.

Many critics panned Chiastic Slide as being an underwhelming follow-up to 1995's groundbreaking Tri Repetae ; others now argue that the album inspired subsequent Autechre releases such as 2001's Confield, and it is often cited as one of the most underappreciated IDM albums of the 1990s.

Slide shows are conducted by a presenter using an apparatus, such as a carousel slide projector, an overhead projector or in more recent years, a computer running presentation software.

Slide shows have artistic uses as well, such as being used as a screensaver, or to provide dynamic imagery for a museum presentation, for example, or in installation art.

Slide shows can be created not only in DVD, but also in HD video format and executable file for PC as for example, in such professional slide show software as Animoto, PicturesToExe, Photodex ProShow, Photo MovieTheater and Windows Movie Maker.

A popular local legend has it that Hunter, or some other later landowner, went to the summit with a hand level in order to be sure they had indeed purchased the Catskills ' highest peak, and were satisfied until an " unknown " peak appeared on the southern horizon — Slide Mountain, the range's true highest peak but not identified as such until 1886 ( which makes this legend unlikely to have any basis in fact, as the necessary clearing at the summit for the fire tower was made well afterwards ).

He has forged a solid reputation accompanying jazz luminaries such as Art Farmer, Charles McPherson, Slide Hampton, George Coleman, the Heath Brothers, the Jazztet, Lou Donaldson, Pepper Adams, Bill Hardman, Junior Cook, Wynton Marsalis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

In the years before WWI the park was a great success, with attractions such as the Scenic Railway, Palais de Folies ( later Giggle Palace ), River Caves of the World, Penny Arcade, a Whitney Bros ' while-u-wait ' photo booth, the American Bowl Slide, as well as live performances in the Palace of Illusions and on a permanent high-wire.

This troll turns out to be Brick, who is a gutter troll of the lowest sort, addicted to Troll drugs beginning with " S ," ( such as Slab, Scrape, Slice, Slide etc.

** Astral Slide, which uses large numbers of cards with cycling, including those with added benefits such as and, to power and.