Nevertheless, a working model was delivered 18 months later, in 1967 — giving TI the world’s first electronic handheld calculator. Merryman was asked at a ceremony held here on Tuesday if he ...

Not only did it serve as the forerunner to handheld calculators, but in the larger sense, it helped kick off an electronic revolution as the first example of a complex consumer device made using ...

1978), Invicta’s Electronic Mastermind (ca. 1980), and an Electronic Backgammon Game by Tyrom (ca. 1981). The first commercial graphing calculator was introduced by the Japanese firm of Casio Computer ...

Fig. 2 from US 3,819,921 Miniature electronic calculator By the time they landed, Kilby had decided they should come up with a calculator that could fit in your pocket, cost less than $100 ...

Merryman is one of three people Texas Instruments credited with inventing the world’s first handheld electronic calculator and his estate, career artifacts and papers are going to auction ...

Part of the draw for Ball is that the calculators were among the first uses of integrated circuits and real electronics. He recalls the 1970s, when the first electronic calculators were available.

His latest doesn’t disappoint, as he delves into the workings of one of the first hand-held electronic calculators. The Sharp EL-8 from 1969 had five MOS ICs at its heart, and among them the ...

that it was at the pinnacle of an effort to compete with the first electronic calculators. “It’s kind of a holy grail machine for me,” says Glusker, a mechanical engineer and collector of early ...

Nostalgia is another; the S100 marks the 50th anniversary of the very first electronic desktop calculator. More important than either of those facts alone, though, is the S100's combination of ...

When they first tried to use thermal printing ... The final patent (U.S. Patent No. 3,819,921), titled “Miniature electronic calculator,” issued on June 25, 1974. When the Cal-Tech calculator ...