The Pocket Calculator Story

by Andrew Morten

The tale of the pocket-sized revolution of the innovative pocket calculator.

Before the 1970s, for anything but basic arithmetic, a pen and paper was needed and complex calculations required a slide rule or logarithm tables. Electronic calculators were in use in the 1960s but they were based on valve or transistor technology, and so they were both bulky and expensive machines. But with the development of the microchip on the back of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398116866
• ISBN13: 9781398116863
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.8"