It was the fall of 1965 and Jack Kilby and Patrick Haggerty of Texas Instruments sat on a flight as Haggerty explained his idea for a calculator that could fit in the palm of a hand. This was a huge ...

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

When humans counted on their fingers, everyone had a state-of-the-art (at the time) calculator at all times. But as we got smarter about calculation, we missed that convenience. When slide rules were ...

Blaise Pascal was a mathematician, a scientist, a philosopher, a Christian writer and the son of a tax collector in 17th century France. The family business involved a lot of tedious arithmetic, so ...

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

They can do everything from plot complex equations to even play games like Doom (if you have enough rotting potatoes) but the handheld calculator started out as a very simple device capable of ...

Form is temporary, function is permanent. The most important inventions are the ones that relate to the human condition, and they crop up over and over again. Below, Houston shares five key insights ...