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These documents record financial transactions of the Marchant Calculating Machine Companyover the years from its founding in 1913 towards its merger with Smith-Corona in 1958. Also included are some ...

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A judge temporarily blocked the sale of this Pascaline, the only known example of a Pascaline used to measure distances. Christie's images Limited 2025 In 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise ...

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The Pascaline was invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642.Wikimedia Commons Art and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician ...