Slide rule

Early modern · Computation · 1622

TL;DR

Slide rule - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Slide rule - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Logarithm

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Slide rule:

Scientific pocket calculator Vector bombsight

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction

Related Inventions

Scientific pocket calculator Logarithm Vector bombsight

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Computing

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