NASA utilized an HP-65 calculator as a crucial backup system during the Apollo-Soyuz mission. This programmable device ...

The pocket calculator arrived in American classrooms in the early 1970s and immediately forced teachers, parents, and school boards to choose sides. Cognitive research from the era actually supported ...

In this day and age of tablets that have screens with over three million pixels, it’s easy to forget the humble pocket calculator, one of the world’s first examples of mobile computing. The New York ...

On February 1, 1972, Hewlett Packard introduced the world’s first scientific pocket calculator, the HP-35. You may be thinking, really, who cares but a bunch of geeks. That’s exactly what the ...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission featured a remarkable pocket-sized Hewlett-Packard calculator, designed to serve as a safeguard for critical navigational calculations. Now housed at the Smithsonian's ...

If you spend any time around technology, and probably even if you don’t, then you’ll probably also have heard some variation on the saying, “There’s more computing power in your pocket than was used ...

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator. By Keith Houston. W.W. Norton & Company; 384 pages; $32.50. To be published in Britain in October; £25 WHEN WAS the last time you used a ...

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 ...

When is a pocket calculator more than just a calculator? [Andrew Menadue] has been pushing the limits of his 1970s Casio FX-502P by adding all sorts of modern functionality via the calculator’s ...