At the start of the 1970s the pocket calculator was the last ... the first domestic European models. So who was first with a European-made calculator? Not the Dutch, the Italians, the Germans ...

An engineer worked in a concentration camp on the first pocket calculator. July 6, 2013— -- A Viennese engineer worked meticulously in a concentration camp on the world's first pocket calculator.

The device featured user-definable keys (with 35 keys controlling more than 80 operations) and was the first HP pocket calculator with base conversions (octal and decimal). The calculator cost $795 ...

An 'exceptionally rare' pocket-sized calculator from the 17th Century is expected to attract £100,000 at auction. The Arithmetical machine is one of the first mechanical calculating devices known ...

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator ... using a Friden STW-10 electro-mechanical calculator. The first purely electrical calculator, the desk-sized Casio 14-A, showed ...

His latest doesn’t disappoint, as he delves into the workings of one of the first hand-held electronic calculators. The Sharp EL-8 from 1969 had five MOS ICs at its heart, and among them the ...

Rosen said interest in the Curta spiked around January 2004 after an article in Scientific American titled “The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator.” With the advent of eBay ...

and the calculator will tell you how lucky or unlucky you've been across each category. There have probably been times during ...