Over the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. According to the accompanying ...

“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum. Our series on the birth of the transistor — and with it, the ...

The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it ...

THE rapid development of large-scale, high-speed calculating machines which has taken place in the United States in recent years is still not fully appreciated in Great Britain. These machines, in one ...

Eduard Selling was a German mathematician and an inventor of calculating machines. Eduard Selling was born on November 5, 1834, in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. Selling studied mathematics at ...