Can I read Slide Rule on EtoBox?

Slide Rule by Shute, Nevil is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Slide Rule about?

Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer is the partial autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute. "Most of my adult life, perhaps all the worthwhile part of it, has been spent messing about with airplanes. For 30 years there was a period when airplanes would fly when you wanted them to, but there were still fresh things to be learned on every flight, a period when airplanes were small and so easily built that experiments were cheap and new designs could fly within six months of the first glimmer in the mind of the designer.""That halcyon period started about 1910 and it was in full flower after WW I when I was a young man; it died with WW II when airplanes had grown too costly and too complicated for individuals to build or even to operate. I count myself lucky that that fleeting period coincided with my youth and my young manhood, and that I had a part in it."

Who reads Slide Rule?

Author

Shute, Nevil

Published

2009

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical

Rating

3.9 / 5 (302 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14