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Who invente the calculator?

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13y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

Blaise Pascal worked on the calculator for three years between 1642 and 1645. This calculator, called the Pascaline, was like a mechanical calculator of the 1940s. He created it to help his father with tax collecting.

However, the first calculators were abaci, and were often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. Abacuses were used centuries before the adoption of the written Arabic numerals system and are still used by some merchants, fishermen and clerks in China and elsewhere.
The first mechanical calculator was made by Blaise Pascal of France, called the Pascaline, in 1642.
The first calculators were abacus frames. These go back to earlier than 2000 bc. Names and details are unavailable; they have been long lost. The slide rule was invented by W. Oughtred in 1632. The first mechanical adder dates to about 1650 by Blaise Pascal in France. The first practical adder/lister was patented in 1885 by William Burroughs of Rochester, New York. The first hand held calculator was invented by Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman, and James Van Tassel in 1966 at Texas Instruments.

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The lazy people! :P

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