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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Houston, Keith, 1977- author.     Subjects     Pocket calculators -- History.     Mathematical instruments -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Houston, Keith, 1977- author.       by title:      Empire of the sum : ...         MARC Display

Empire of the sum : the rise and reign of the pocket calculator / Keith Houston. by Houston, Keith, 1977- author. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] Subjects Pocket calculators -- History.   Mathematical instruments -- History. ISBN:  9780393882148 (hbk.) : 0393882144 (hbk.) Description:  374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The hand -- The abacus -- The slide rule -- The clockwork age -- The arithmometer and the curta -- The Friden STW-10 -- The Casio 14-A -- The Sumlock Anita -- The Olivetti Programma 101 -- The Texas Instruments Cal Tech -- The Busicom 141-PF -- The Hewlett-Packard HP-35 -- The Pulsar Time computer calculator -- The Texas Instruments TI-81 -- Software Arts Visicalc. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The hidden history of the pocket calculator--a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon--and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life"--Back cover.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 510.284 Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.284 Houston Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.284 Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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