electronic calculator
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Many will say that the rotting of our brains really began in spring 1967, when Texas Instruments unveiled the Cal-Tech, the world’s first true handheld electronic calculator.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
He was one of the inventors of the handheld electronic calculator.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2019
Jerry Merryman, one of the inventors of the handheld electronic calculator, died Feb. 27 at a Dallas hospital.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2019
The arrival of the electronic calculator, for example, meant that our capacity to do mental arithmetic evaporated.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2018
As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
