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Your oldest domestic tool

Nico said:
Dad's slide rule that calculates.
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Memories ! I was taught to use one at school. I have a 'modern' plastic one, a Thornton original that was handed down, and a pocket 6 incher. I used to have a circular one too. Used them into the 80's until electronic calculators stopped needing a mortgage to buy one.
Now I have to go to my history cupboard to see if I can remember how to drive one.
Andrew.
 
Not quite. You hire a large metal container (delivered to outside your house) into which you dump all your rubbish and then the firm you hired it from come and take it away.
 
pjmburns said:
Not quite. You hire a large metal container (delivered to outside your house) into which you dump all your rubbish and then the firm you hired it from come and take it away.
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Ah, thank you! We would call that a dumpster, comes in 20 or 40 feet. It seems like we need one 9or 2) of those every time we move, of maybe every 5 or 6 years!

Thank you!
 
mw0njm. said:
prob here they put there stuff in as well during the night.
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We have had stuff put in and taken out! A few few years ago I went late on a very cold night looking for our cat, only to find two people looking with flashlights climbing on the dumpster, they almost fell in when I turned the garage flood lights on! I just turned them off and let them take what they wanted. The cat came in!
 
Not sure - they went from GCSE maths a long time ago - when calculators became the norm.
Think still in use at A level but there is a log button on most calculators so no idea if the books are used. I liked those to show pupils the gradual change. You can't see that on a calculator. :rolleyes:
 
Bob Davis said:
Talking of old tools, although not domestic, are log tables used any more, logarithms, not picnic.
Bob
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A proper analogue volume control on an old radiogram has a logarithmic response volume to rotation, granted you don't need tables to use it, but the designer probably did to design it.
pjmburns said:
Not sure - they went from GCSE maths a long time ago - when calculators became the norm.
Think still in use at A level but there is a log button on most calculators so no idea if the books are used. I liked those to show pupils the gradual change. You can't see that on a calculator. :rolleyes:
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A book of log tables would be hard to find new these days except at specialist outlets, as would be students who could read them. Such a book was part of my rucksack at school. A slide rule is effectively a mechanical log table, and has gone the same way. Log tables are fundamental to a huge range of calculations, sound intensity being one example. As you say Janice, they have been hidden behind calculators and computers, and something has been lost in the learning process.

Andrew.
 
Brummie a long time ago said:
A proper analogue volume control on an old radiogram has a logarithmic response volume to rotation, granted you don't need tables to use it, but the designer probably did to design it.

A book of log tables would be hard to find new these days except at specialist outlets, as would be students who could read them. Such a book was part of my rucksack at school. A slide rule is effectively a mechanical log table, and has gone the same way. Log tables are fundamental to a huge range of calculations, sound intensity being one example. As you say Janice, they have been hidden behind calculators and computers, and something has been lost in the learning process.

Andrew.
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When we moved I found my slide rule in it’s nice leather case with a clip for my belt. I purchased in 5he mid 60’s a K&E Deci Lon which was about $35 USD which was about 1 1/2 days pay at the time!
 
I remember that I donated my log .ca led to the oxfam shop some years ago.dont knows if anyone bought them or even if the shop botheredc to display them
 
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