There was a time when being an engineering student meant you had a sword. Well, really it was a slide rule hanging from your belt, but it sounds cooler to call it a sword. The slide rule sword gave ...

The HP-35 scientific calculator managed to replace the slide rule almost overnight, using a legendary combination of form and function. The HP-35 scientific calculator managed to replace the slide ...

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While we might have started out using our fingers and toes to count, humanity has been busy designing machines to help with calculations for hundreds of years. From early counting devices to modern ...

Since the early 1970s, Hewlett-Packard pocket calculators have proved popular with students, scientists and engineers. Most of their scientific calculators let you show more digits after the zero. For ...

A year ago, I finally added an example of the very first handheld scientific calculator – the HP 35 – to my collection. If you don’t insist on a pristine unit, they can be had for quite reasonable ...

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 ...

As Micky Mouse (1928–) once famously said: “Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.” As Micky Mouse (1928–) once famously said: “Arithmetic is being able to count ...

Scientific calculators can perform all the functions of a basic calculator as well as execute far more complex mathematical functions and equations. The ability to solve polynomials and simultaneous ...