IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1895, Otto Steiger, a Swiss ...

Most early calculating machines carried out multiplication as a form of repeated addition. To multiply, say, by thirteen, one set the carriage at its rightmost position, turned the operating crank ...

Frustrated by human error, mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed a machine to perform mathematical functions and automatically print the results. Library of Congress When today’s number ...

Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise ...

IT would be difficult to exaggerate the importance at the present time of easy and rapid methods of solving the day-to-day mathematical problems that arise in military survey work. A large number of ...

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 ...

Christie’s has halted the sale of a rare 17th-century arithmetic machine that was due to be auctioned on November 19. Hours before the Pascaline, named after its polymath inventor Blaise Pascal, was ...

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While working as a bank clerk, William Seward Burroughs saw a need for an improved calculator, so he invented one, and was issued four patents for the first successful “calculating machine” on August ...