If you spend any time around technology, and probably even if you don’t, then you’ll probably also have heard some variation on the saying, “There’s more computing power in your pocket than was used ...

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 counting devices to modern ...

An engineer worked in a concentration camp on the first pocket calculator. July 6, 2013— -- A Viennese engineer worked meticulously in a concentration camp on the world's first pocket calculator.

It was 1985 when Guy Ball saw his first old calculator at a Salvation Army. “It was really cool-looking and had this white plastic sculpted body. The numbers lit up in a pretty blue fluorescent tone.

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