Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim (17 July 1831 – 11 December 1906) was the inventor of the modern
slide rule
A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for conducting mathematical operations such as multiplication, division, exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry. It is one of the simplest analog ...
. Around 1850, he introduced a new scale system that used a ''runner'' to perform calculations. This type of slide rule became known under the name of its inventor: the ''Mannheim''.
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Computer Museum, Kiel*
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1831 births
1906 deaths
19th-century French mathematicians
20th-century French mathematicians
French Jews
Jewish scientists