calculating machine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of calculating machine
First recorded in 1700–10
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One of Wall Street’s most foundational modern beliefs is that the stock market is a cold, calculating machine that assigns values to individual securities with a high degree of precision.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Subsequently striking up a friendship with Charles Babbage, an inventor and mechanical engineer, Lovelace would become fascinated with his plans to build a complicated calculating machine.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal in 1642.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
One of the central researchers in the early years of Antikythera research was German philologist Albert Rehm, the first person to understand the mechanism as a calculating machine.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 14, 2021
As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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