print email comment close Vintage Calculators URL: http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/vintage.htm Description: Explores the history of calculating devices beginning 5000 years ago, from the abacus to the invention of the electronic calculator. Includes a drawing or photo of each device, an explanation of how it works, and its inventor. Features a discussion forum, and related links. Extra Keywords Troncets Slide Adders Polymaths Antikythera Napier’s Bones Pascaline Difference Engine Library of Congress Subject Headings: Calculators -- Collectibles Calculators -- History LII Database Information: Record 5918 created by Ellen Cunningham on 01/11/1999 Last modification on 09/19/2004 Published: 01/11/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5918