This full-keyboard direct multiplication non-printing electric calculating machine has an iron and steel case painted black, The nine columns of plastic black and white keys are colored according to ...

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 ...

(STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/AFP) 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 ...

Christie's suspended its sale of the first calculating machine after an export ban kept it from leaving France, according to the South China Morning Post. One of only nine surviving examples of a ...

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 ...