by Jim Cerny
On a pleasant October day in 2013, eight of us gathered at Ed Chamberlain's farm in Etna, New Hampshire—to view, talk about, and sell slide rules. All of these collectors were from the Northeast and I had met most of these collectors about ten years before at East Coast meetings in northern New Jersey.
We had a field trip to Harold Frost's house to see his remarkable collection of planimeters. At his request I did not do any photography, but he has shown them at other meetings Some stayed for dinner at a local restaurant, while I left for my two-hour drive back to the New Hampshire Seacoast.
What follows is a unsystematic collection of photographs, with emphasis on Ed's long-scale rules and on capturing detail.
I only saw Ed one more time, when we had lunch in 2014. In fact, I was unaware he had died until almost a year after the fact. Here is a remembrance of the impact Ed had on my collecting. And here is a link to his published obituary.
Ed in 2013
