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 ...

Most early calculating machines carried out multiplication as a form of repeated addition. To multiply, say, by thirteen, one set the carriage at its rightmost position, turned the operating crank ...

Christie’s, the British auction house, has halted the sale of the world's first calculator “La Pascaline” in Paris. The auction of the first calculating machine was scheduled for Wednesday, but the ...

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 ...

SCIENTIFIC computing has been materially aided of late years by the development of calculating machines, a development in which scientific workers themselves have had a say. We may instance the use of ...

Grant’s difference engine was invented in 1876 by George Grant. It was a calculating machine and was invented as a way to advance the current calculating machine technology. It used the latest design ...