{"id":1675,"date":"2014-12-23T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2014-12-23T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:57:31","slug":"brunsviga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/12\/23\/brunsviga\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunsviga Mechanical Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the age of the cellphones that have more computing power than entire universities had just a few decades ago it is easy to forgot that not that long ago we did not even have electronic calculating machines of any kind.
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\"Brunsviga.\"<\/a>

A Brunsviga mechanical calculator.
This particular calculator was actually used at the University of Szeged for scientific calculations (many decades ago, of course).<\/p><\/div>\n

I have noticed this mechanical calculator sitting in someone’s office at the University of Szeged<\/a>. Naturally it is a museum piece now, but it seemed to be still in a good working condition. Apparently when it was built it was expected to last a lot longer than an iPhone.<\/p>\n

Further Readings:<\/h4>\n
\nMechanical calculator<\/a> on Wikipedia.
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The manual of a similar Brunsviga device.<\/a>
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