In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...

It’s possible quite a few of our older readers will remember the period from the 1960s into the ’70s when an electronic calculator was the cutting edge of consumer-grade digital technology. By the ...

Today's engineer has a number of computerized tools for performing electronic calculations. There's the latest Simple 'n Easy on-the-go learning app, Electrical ...

“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 ...

Do you have any suggestions for electronic calculators and solvers that you would like us to add to EEWeb.com? Don’t be afraid. Let your imagination run wild and free. Every now and then, an ...

Jerry Merryman, one of three people at Texas Instruments credited with inventing the world’s first handheld electronic calculator in the 1960s, died at a Dallas hospital on February 27. Merryman was ...