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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter The Daily Online Genealogy Newsletter Do You Remember the Slide Rule? Dick Eastman ·  February 13, 2019   ·  History ·  24 Comments It wasn’t all that long ago that engineers, astronauts, mathematicians, and students proudly carried the  original  pocket calculator. I had one and thought I was proficient at it. Sadly, I misplaced it years ago. The slide rule was a simple device with one sliding part that could do complex mathematical calculations in moments. Multiplication, division, roots, logarithms, and even trigonometry could be performed with ease. But as technology marched forward with sophisticated computers and graphing pocket calculators, the lowly slide rule was forgotten. Much of the engineering of the world we live in was designed with the use of slide rules, and yet they are almost forgotten today. Do you have a teen-aged child or grandchild? If so, ask him or her what a slide rule is. I suspect he or she wo

A few days ago an officer from Athens went to Elkland and arrested W.D. Loper, a former resident of Athens ,who is charged with  surreptitiously carrying off  a baritone horn, a coronet ,and a clarinet belonging to the Athens band. At Lawrenceville while the officer was dictating a telegraphic message, his prisoner made a break  for liberty and escaped over the New York stateline, which was only a few rods distant.  Loper refused to come back over the line and resisted the officer when he "reached for him". But he was finally collared and dragged back into Pennsylvania and then handcuffed  for the rest of the journey to Athens..