The Pascaline is one of the early computers, it was invented by Blaise Pascal on 1642. It was named after him. by nazir
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Blaise Pascal along with Wilhelm Schickard was one of two inventors of the mechanical calculator in the early 17th century. Pascal designed the machine in 1642.
No, it wasn't. The first calculator was called the pascaline.
I will say it was the pascaline, created by Blaise Pascal in 1642. It was a mechanical calculator that could add and subtract directly.
In 1642 Blaise Pascal invented the pascaline, the first adding machine using gears, to help his father calculate taxes. William Seward Burroughs invented a different kind of adding machine in 1885.
The ancient Romans developed an Abacus. Blaise Pascal, however, was a French mathematical genius, and at the age of 19, he invented a machine, called the Pascaline, that could do addition and subtraction. He invented this machine to help his father, who was also a mathematician.