Wednesday, June 15

Pascal's Adding Machine

Better techniques for keeping the records by hand along with specialized calculating device continued to be developed through the centuries.The first real calculating machine that could add and subtract was a mechanical calculator called Pascal's Adding Machine or Pascaline,invented by a French scientist Blaise Pascal in 1642.Pascal' Adding Machine consisted of a toothed wheels or gears with each wheel having digits 0 through 9 engraved on it.The addition or subtraction was performed by turning these wheels.
         

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