A French court has blocked the export and foreign purchase of a 17th century arithmetic machine invented by Blaise Pascal to ...

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

A rare 17th-century calculating machine created by French mathematician Blaise Pascal has become the center of a heated legal ...

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

Christie’s, the British auction house, has halted the sale of the world's first calculator “La Pascaline” in Paris. The ...

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 ...

In the early 20th century, William A. Morschhauser of New York City became the exclusive American distributor of the Millionaire calculating machine. He placed machines at several United States ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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