Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a ...

If you’re into mechanical devices or Fourier series (or both!), you’ve got some serious YouTubing to do. In Synthesis, [The Engineer Guy] explains how the machine creates an arbitrary waveform from ...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., willl unveil a recreation of Charles Babbages 19th century mechanical digital calculator, the Difference Engine No. 2. Starting in May, many will ...

The mechanical calculator that the power is handwheel handle and the data record is made by the punch type card reader so that it can be made by 3D printer without using any electronic parts "The ...

University of Tübingen scientist corresponded with astronomer Johannes Kepler – his invention fell into obscurity during the Thirty Years’ War A letter from Tübingen universal scientist Wilhelm ...

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