- male, deceased (1660)
- William Oughtred was an English mathematician. Although John Napier created the logarithmic scales upon which they are based, it was Oughtred who...
- male, 133 years old
- Otis Carter Formby King (1876-??) was a grocer and engineer in London who invented and produced a cylindrical slide rule with helical scales,...
- male, deceased (2002)
- Allan George Bromley (1947-2002) was an Australian historian of computing. Allan Bromley was an associate professor at the University of Sydney....
- male, deceased (1885)
- Elizur Wright (12 February 1804 - 22 November1885) was an American mathematician and abolitionist. He is sometimes described as the "father of life...
- male, deceased (1906)
- Amedie Mannheim (1831-1906) was the inventor of the modern slide rule. Around 1850, he introduced a new scale system that used a "runner" to...
- male, deceased (1939)
- Carl Georg Lange Barth (February 28 1860 - 1939) was a Norwegian-American engineer who improved and popularized the slide rule.
- male, 167 years old
- Beauchamp Tower (1845 - 1904) was an English inventor and engineer who is chiefly known for his discovery of full-film or hydrodynamic lubrication....
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