Earlier this year, [Dan Maloney] went inside mechanical calculators. Being the practical sort, [Dan] jumped right into the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. It couldn’t multiply or divide. He then ...

In the llate nineteenth century, with the successful introduction of commercial calculating machines, scholars looked with renewed interest in prototypes of such machines. One innovator who received ...

Introduction -- Carrying tens : Pascal, Morland, and the challenge of machine calculation -- First carry ; Babbage and Clement mechanize table making -- Artisans and their philosophers : Leibniz and ...

AT a well-attended meeting of the Newcomen Society held in the rooms of the Royal Society on February 16, Mr. R. Nilsson gave a paper entitled "The Pascal Arithmometer and Other Means to Solve ...