Which English mathematician and clergyman invented the slide rule in 1622, revolutionising calculation for over three centuries?

Before pocket calculators arrived in the 1970s, engineers and scientists relied on a clever sliding wooden device for multiplication and division. Its inventor was an unassuming country parson with a passion for mathematics.

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