If you've ever spent time thumbing through back issues of magazines like Scientific American or New Scientist, you may have seen adverts for the Curta – a strange little device that resembles a pepper ...

Mechanical calculators are an engineering marvel unknown to most people. The most advanced mechanical calculator ever built, the Curta calculator, fits into the palm of your hand and uses dozens of ...

It’s no bigger than a drinking glass, and it fits easily in the palm of the hand. It resembles a pepper grinder—or perhaps a hand grenade. The diminutive “Curta” is a striking machine, a mechanical ...

The CURTA mechanical calculator literally saved its inventor’s life. [Curt Herzstark] had been working on the calculator in the 1930s until the Nazis forced him to focus on building other tools for ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Nov 7, 2024 at 12:45 pm November 18, 2024 at 7:18 ...

I was just in an email ‘conversation’ with someone when I mentioned my Curta mechanical calculator, and he responded “Pictures Please!” so here we are… Just in case you haven’t heard about this before ...

Look, we know that the Curta Calculator is old. 1948 old in fact, after it was first conceived by Curt Herzstark while imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Still, why not introduce the ...

A mobile tool for carrying out simple mathematical equations, the Curta was the best pocket calculator until the advent of the electric calculator. Now, thanks to the 3D-printing prowess of Charlotte, ...

We’ve always admired Curta mechanical calculators, and would be very hesitant to dismantle one. But [Janus Cycle] did just that — and succeeded. A friend sent him a Curta Model 2 calculator that was ...

I worked with a guy who found one of these at an estate sale in a box of used camera lenses. He didn't know what it was but it looked expensive and said "Made in Germany" so he figured it was worth ...

The Curta calculator, a small cylindrical math machine with a hand-crank on the top, was first dreamt up by Curt Herzstark in the 1930s who finished its design while imprisoned in the Buchenwald ...