mechanical calculator
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mechanical machine for arithmetic operations for absolute calculators
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- calculating tool
- Creator
- Blaise Pascal
- Image
- Mechanical-calculator-Brunsviga-15-01.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1642-00-00
- Commons category
- Mechanical calculators
- topic's main category
- Category:Mechanical calculators
- replaced by
- adding machine
- location of creation
- Normandy
- studied by
- history of computing hardware
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Various desktop mechanical calculators used in the office from 1851 onwards. Each one has a different user interface. This picture shows clockwise from top left: An Arithmometer, a Comptometer, a Dalton adding machine, a Sundstrand, and an Odhner Arithmometer
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