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How was the first calculator powered?

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 ∙ 13y ago
Updated: 11/9/2022

The answer depends on how you define calculator. The first calculators were people. Blaise Pascal built a kind of calculator in the 17 century. It was powered by a human turning a knob or pulling a crank. The first widely used desk calculators were powered by electricity.

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