It was William Oughtred ( 1575 – 1660 ) who first used two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division ; and thus is credited as the inventor of the slide rule in 1622.

* William Oughtred invents the slide rule.

* March 5 – William Oughtred, English mathematician ( d. 1660 )

* June 30 – William Oughtred, English mathematician ( b. 1575 )

The × symbol for multiplication was introduced by William Oughtred in 1631.

He also popularized the use of π for Archimedes constant ( due to William Jones ' proposal for the use of π in this way based on the earlier notation of William Oughtred ).

Vieta did not know " multiplied " notation ( given by William Oughtred in 1631 ) or the symbol of equality, =, an absence which is more striking because Robert Recorde had used the present symbol for this purpose since 1557 and Guilielmus Xylander had used parallel vertical lines since 1575.

* William Oughtred, Clavis Mathematica London 1648

* The slide rule is invented by William Oughtred ( 1574-1660 ), an English mathematician, and later becomes the calculating tool of choice until the electronic calculator takes over in the early 1970s.

* William Oughtred publishes Clavis Mathematicae, introducing the multiplication sign (×) and proportion sign (::).

William Oughtred ( 5 March 1575 – 30 June 1660 ) was an English mathematician.

William Lilly, an eminent astrologer, claimed in his autobiography to have intervened on behalf of Oughtred to prevent his ejection by Parliament in 1646.

* Florian Cajori ( 1916 ), William Oughtred, a great seventeenth-century teacher of mathematics online text

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William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

" Running the ' Machine ' ": An 1864 political cartoon takes a swing at Lincoln's administration — featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William H. Seward | William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln and others.

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On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

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