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April 22, 1592

Mechanical Calculator Designer Schikard Is Born

Wilhelm Schickard, creator of an early calculating machine, is born in Germany. Schickard uses wooden gears to build an adding machine in 1623, called the "calculating clock", that could add and subtract up to six-digit numbers.