{"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":"<p>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.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1674\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brunsviga.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1674\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brunsviga.jpg\" alt=\"Brunsviga.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1674\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brunsviga.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brunsviga-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Brunsviga mechanical calculator.<br \/> This particular calculator was actually used at the University of Szeged for scientific calculations (many decades ago, of course).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have noticed this mechanical calculator sitting in someone&#8217;s office at the University of <a href=\"\/places\/hungary\/szeged\/\" title=\"Szeged\">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<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mechanical_calculator\" title=\"Mechanical calculator\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanical calculator<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jxh.com\/Brunsviga\/front.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Brunsviga Manual\">The manual of a similar Brunsviga device.<\/a><br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"\/2014\/12\/23\/brunsviga\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}