Georg Scheutz - The First Printing Calculator
Georg Scheutz (1785~1873) Two Swedes, Georg Scheutz and his son, Edvard, built the Smithsonian’s machine, also dubbed as “The First Printing Calculator”, in 1853. Each of its long shafts holds disks, and each disk has wheels with ten teeth that correspond to marks in the disks. A scientist could set the disks with known figures, odd or even, turn a crank, and by reading down on each shaft, find the result of a calculation.
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