Christie's will sell an example of the first calculating machine in history, developed by Blaise Pascal in 1642, at an ...

In 1867, Frederick A. P. Barnard, a mathematician and the president of Columbia University in New York, served as a judge at the Exposition universelle, a world’s fair held in Paris. There he saw a ...

In the early 20th century, William A. Morschhauser of New York City became the exclusive American distributor of the Millionaire calculating machine. He placed machines at several United States ...

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A DISPLAY of calculating machines was arranged early this month by the Burroughs Adding Machine, Ltd.,at 136 Regent Street, London, W.I. The machines shown were of many types, ranging from the simpler ...

Charles Babbage is widely recognized as a pioneer of the programable computer due to his ingenious designs for steam-driven calculating machines in the 19th century. But Babbage drew inspiration from ...