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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Jerry Merryman, one of three men credited with inventing the hand-held electronic calculator, has died at the age of 86, ...

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 ...