Gigacalculator compiled a list of important events throughout the history of the modern calculator using historical and news sources. - Mondadori // Getty Images Gigacalculator compiled a list of ...

Form is temporary, function is permanent. The most important inventions are the ones that relate to the human condition, and they crop up over and over again. Below, Houston shares five key insights ...

“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum. Our series on the birth of the transistor — and with it, the ...

This week on The History of Fun, Chris Plante sits out so that we can have another fun-time expert join us: Jon Bois, our friend from SB Nation. Jon doesn’t come to talk sportsball with us, though. He ...

Most people take calculators for granted, especially now that they’re built into our phones. But the noble pocket calculator has a long, surprisingly colorful history. The Twitter account Pulp ...

Ask any professor, and they’ll probably tell you graphing calculators offer a plethora of mathematical uses, like plotting graphs, inputting trigonometric functions — you know, typical academic stuff.

A woman standing next to a calculator taller than herself. Though we may not think about it, math and calculations permeate our everyday lives. We calculate tips at restaurants, determine how much ...