Blaise Pascal and Wilhelm Schickard are credited with inventing one of the earliest calculators in the mid 1600's. Thomas de Colmar invented a calculator for business in 1850. William Seward Burroughs is the person that invented the 10-key adding machine for commercial purposes in 1888.
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The first adding calculator machine was invented by Blaise Pascal.
The introduction of the 1st mechanical calculator was invented in Europe. This type of calculator production then spread world wide. The first ever was invented by Willhelm Schickard.
The first calculator was invented in 1623.
The first modern-style electronic calculator was invented in the 1960s. The first counting device, an abacus, was invented in Egypt in about 2000 BCE. The mechanical calculator was developed in the 17th century.
The oldest calculator, the abacus, was invented in ancient Egypt(unknown date). The first Mechanical calculator, known as the Calculating clock, was invented by Willhelm Schickard in 1623. The first electronic desktop calculator were announced by the Bell Punch Co, in Uxbridge England in 1961. Finally, the first handheld computer was invented in 1980.