Artifact Details

Description

Black and white. Pascal's Pascaline calculator. Shows dials with labels for each dial. Dials are turned with a sylus which is housed on left. Has carrying handles. Pictured is a replica, the first single register calculator. It was based on a toothed wheel mechanism, and used for relatively sim[ple addition calculations.
Verso" Paper stickers: "Pascaline (Pascal's Adder)" "Please return to: The Computer Museum Photographic Archives 300 Congress Street Museum Wharf Boston, MA 02210" "This Photograph may not be reproduced without written permission of the Photographic Archives The Computer Museum, Boston, MA"

photograph may not be reproduced without written permission of the Photographic Archives The Computer Museum Boston, MA"

Identifying Numbers

Other number	#1945a	Verso
Other number	21 32443	Verso red sticker

Dimensions

8 x 10 in.

Category

Photograph

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015

Related Records

102630787

Pascal calculator