Almost 300 years before the first solid state electronic calculator was produced, Pascal set out to create a calculating machine that could automate the process of basic mathematical functions.

Pascal was a man of so many talents that it was reported that even René Descartes was envious of the Frenchman . ... His calculating machine was a product of these early years.

THE first calculating machine was invented in 1642 by Blaise Pascal. Had it not been for the War, the tercentenary of this event, which has had such a profound influence on applied mathematics and ...

IN 1642 Blaise Pascal, a Frenchman, invented the first calculating machine. The tercentenary of this event, which has had such a profound influence upon applied mathematics and physics, should ...

An early adding machine, c. 1890, invented by William Seward Burroughs, grandfather of the beat writer. National Museum of American History Today every phone is a calculator, but in the late 1800s ...

Blaise Pascal is credited with inventing the very first calculator in 1642. His machine that could perform computations that where previously thought to be only humanly possible.

Machines that could do arithmetic automatically were built as mechanical marvels in the 1600s on the design of mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal and Gottfried Leibniz. However, it was only with the ...

1895: Otto Steiger receives a patent for his Millionaire calculating machine. It may not have been fruitful, but it multiplied. The history of calculators stretches back to the invention of the ...