IT lexicon Hardware Arithmometer

Arithmometer

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Creator
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
Released
1820 (patent), series production from c. 1851
Type
Mechanical calculator
Predecessor
Stepped reckoner

The first calculator manufactured in series and available to order, which turned computation from a craft into a product.

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