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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This desktop programmable printing ...

Watching this video of Friden EC-132 electronic calculators provides a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Watching this video of Friden EC-132 electronic calculators provides a nostalgic trip down ...

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 the ...

It was the fall of 1965 and Jack Kilby and Patrick Haggerty of Texas Instruments sat on a flight as Haggerty explained his idea for a calculator that could fit in the palm of a hand. This was a huge ...

According to Casio Electronics Co Ltd and parent Casio Computer Co Ltd, worldwide sales of the company's calculators topped the mighty one billion figure last month. The company was founded in 1957 ...

A museum in Tokyo preserves the legacy of Kashio Toshio, a co-founder of electronics giant Casio who helped develop the company’s calculators, watches, and other groundbreaking products. Casio ...

Jerry Merryman, one of three people at Texas Instruments credited with inventing the world’s first handheld electronic calculator in the 1960s, died at a Dallas hospital on February 27. Merryman was ...

Compiling an accurate and detailed map of an archaeological site is one of the more time-consuming and hence expensive phases of archaeological work. This paper presents some techniques developed at ...