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Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim (17 July 1831 – 11 December 1906) was the inventor of the modern slide rule. 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
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Amédée Mannheim", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mannheim.html .

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Name	Mannheim
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Date of birth	17 July 1831
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Date of death	11 December 1906
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