Over the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop ...

Bonhams’ annual History of Science & Technology auction never fails to delight, and the next sale, scheduled for November 5, has one of the most exciting technology offerings we’ve ever seen – the ...

They can do everything from plot complex equations to even play games like Doom (if you have enough rotting potatoes) but the handheld calculator started out as a very simple device capable of ...

WASHINGTON — In a darkened Algebra II classroom, all eyes were on an illuminated graphing calculator projected 3 feet high on the white board as students studied a series of graphs and talked about ...

WASHINGTON –- In 1965, the consumer electronics revolution that would result in PCs, iPods, smart phones and myriad other electronic devices was still years off. And the predecessors of the integrated ...

If you’ve ever used an electric hand-held calculator in your life, you can thank Jerry Merryman for helping make your math life easier. Merryman — who along with two other men invented the little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RICHMOND, Va. (DC News Now) — The days of using hand-held calculators aren’t entirely gone, but when it comes to testing in ...

Before there were Palms, Pocket PCs, Psions or even Sharp Wizards, there were calculators. Not big mechanical adding machines, but portable models made by Hewlett-Packard that everyone from grade ...

In a darkened Algebra II classroom, all eyes were on an illuminated graphing calculator projected three feet high on the white board as students studied a series of graphs and talked about absolute ...