In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...

It’s possible quite a few of our older readers will remember the period from the 1960s into the ’70s when an electronic calculator was the cutting edge of consumer-grade digital technology. By ...

Jerry Merryman, one of the inventors of the handheld electronic calculator, died Feb. 27 at a Dallas hospital. He was 86. The cause was complications of heart and kidney failure, said his ...

A patent application was filed resulting in US patent 3,819,921, Miniature electronic calculator, which outlined the basic design for all the calculators to follow.

The long, long history of the calculator starts with centuries of mechanical engineering, but in the 1960s, a shift began. The advent of the transistor suddenly allowed the humble calculator to ...

The scientific calculator While we might have started out using our fingers and toes to count, humanity has been busy designing machines to help with calculations for hundreds of years. From early … ...

Not all educators agree that the best ways to teach mathematics include giving students electronic calculators. But many do, and their view is reflected in the policies and practices of school ...

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Today’s calculator programs are—or were—simulations of calculators, the electronic machines that had been designed to perform mathematical operations—the old, chunky machine with a printed ...

It's almost poetic justice that a calculator design was the microprocessor's first home. Calculators, digital watches, and other consumer devices were at the vanguard of electronic applications in ...