IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1895, Otto Steiger, a Swiss ...

Invented by Leonardo Torres in 1920, the Torres calculating machine is a machine that solves essential addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems using a simple manner. It was a ...

In 1867, Frederick A. P. Barnard, a mathematician and the president of Columbia University in New York, served as a judge at the Exposition universelle, a world’s fair held in Paris. There he saw a ...

Christie's suspended its sale of the first calculating machine after an export ban kept it from leaving France, according to the South China Morning Post.

A rare 17th-century calculating machine created by French mathematician Blaise Pascal has become the center of a heated legal and cultural dispute, after a Paris administrative court stepped in to ...

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled in France, after a Paris court ...

While working as a bank clerk, William Seward Burroughs saw a need for an improved calculator, so he invented one, and was issued four patents for the first successful “calculating machine” on August ...

Christie’s has halted the sale of a rare 17th-century arithmetic machine that was due to be auctioned on November 19. Hours before the Pascaline, named after its polymath inventor Blaise Pascal, was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. This book is a tale of two quests. The first is Charles Babbage’s ...

Large scale calculating machines may make it feasible for the government to set production goals for major industries, Frederick V. Waugh of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers told a ...