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Definition of Calculating machine

Calculating machine
Calculating Cal"cu*la`ting, a. 1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. 2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

Meaning of Calculating machine from wikipedia

- A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or a simulation...
- S2CID 28216043. In 1893, the German calculating machine inventor Arthur Burkhardt was asked to put Leibniz machine in operating condition if possible....
- sophisticated electrical machines did specialized analog calculations in the early 20th century. The first digital electronic calculating machines were developed...
- American mechanical engineer and businessman who founded the Friden Calculating Machine Company (Friden, Inc.). Carl Mauritz Fredrik Friden was born in Alvesta...
- article: Astronomische Nachrichten/Volume 46/On Mr. Babbage's new machine for calculating and printing mathematical and astronomical tables The notion of...
- Derek De Solla. "A history of calculating machines." Ieee Micro 4.1 (1984): 22-52. Wilkes, M. V. "Automatic calculating machines." Journal of the Royal Society...
- years: the Nippon Calculating Machine Corp, Ltd and subsequently Broughtons & Co. (Bristol) Ltd of the UK. The Nippon Calculating Machine Corp was incorporated...
- The Marchant Calculating Machine Company was founded in 1911 by Rodney and Alfred Marchant in Oakland, California. The company built mechanical, and then...
- Brunsviga was a calculating machine company whose history goes back to 1892. They produced mechanical calculators, hand operated but later also electrically...
- Missouri. U.S. patent 388,116 Calculating-machine. Filed January 1885, issued August 1888. U.S. patent 388,117 Calculating-machine. Filed August 1885, issued...