His calculating machine was a product of these early years. His father was working as Rouen’s chief tax officer, a job which involved many routine, but time-consuming calculations. Pascal’s ...

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.

From January 8-13, 1951 the Paris symposium, Les Machines á calculer et la pensée humaine (Calculating Machines and Human Thought) took place at l’Institut Blaise Pascal.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today it launched new GPU-powered virtual machines that utilize Nvidia’s Pascal cards. With pre-installed machine learning frameworks, Paperspace caters to the emerging market of prosumer and ...

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 ...

This small lightweight machine, based on Napier’s logarithm was one of the earliest portable designs.' Blaise Pascal's calculating machine - another 17th Century mechanical marvel - is pictured.