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His novels are written in a simple, highly readable style, with clearly delineated plot lines. The family moved to dublin where his father was head of the post office, and nevil was a stretcher bearer during the 1916 easter rising. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Slide rule vintage international kindle edition by nevil shute.
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Nevil shute norway born on 17 january 1899 in ealing, a suburb to the west of london, nevil shute norway was the younger son of arthur norway and his wife mary nee gadsden. Nevil shute norway was a british novelist and aeronautical engineer. It might be good to try a slide rule with a different download for the scales in order to see if it would be more accurate. These were the largest of their generation, vastly larger than the a380 and 747 jets of today. Julian smiths biography contains one chapter about his.
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Alan duncan returns to his family home in australia after the war and several years of study in england. Those familiar with logarithms and their use will recognize that the slide rule provides what is in effect a concisely arranged table of logarithms, together with a simple and convenient means for adding and subtracting any selected values. He used the name nevil shute for his novels, but as an engineer he was nevil norway. Nevil shute was a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. I have read quite a bit of nevil shute in the last few years, in part because the stories are very enjoyable, and in part because his characters have a romantic and very attractive quality about them. Ensn020, slide rule, 1954, 107, 544k, ebook, download pdf slide rule. The parallels between shutes life and his fiction can be seen. Slide rule was published in 1954 and represented nevil shute s selected remembrances from childhood to 1938.
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