Engineering Instruments Inc. started out as the Lawrence Engineering Service in 1938, employing 10 people. The company became know for the first 25-cent slide rule. The founders, Lee and Vivian Lawrence, divorced in 1947. The company became the wife's property, who gave it the new name. It lasted another 20 years until a fire destroyed the factory. Lee went on to found a plastics factory which, among other things, produced the Etch-a-Sketch toys.
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ReplyDeleteRecently scored a Lawrence 10-B slide rule from a thrift shop for the princely sum of $2. Instrument is over 70 years young and is simple yet elegant. I've managed the former but not the latter...
I hope to use it for another 30 years and get my money's worth. $2 is $2 after all...
I hope to use it to design an aeronautical craft utilising the Magnus Effect. I've been reliably informed that there is a future in the design & manufacture of heavier-than-air devices. The Sonora Aero Club of California is apparently making great strides in that field of endeavour.
In numero veritas,
P.
Sonoma Aero Club reference...
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