This was a huge challenge since at that time calculators were the size of typewriters and plugged into wall sockets for their power. Kilby, who’d co-invented the integrated circuit just seven ...

They wanted a flashy product to showcase the IC. A calculator seemed just the thing. In a mere two years, a TI group including Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel, and led by Jack Kilbydeveloped a ...

But the history of computing started centuries earlier. For example, in 1493 Leonardo da Vinci drew a sketch of what appears ...

Curt Herzstark’s famed invention is the Curta calculator, a selection of which will be on display starting Sunday at the ...