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The Pascaline does the tax sums

At 19, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine to ease the work of his father, a tax supervisor in Rouen. He made about 50 prototypes and some 20 machines by 1654, when production stopped because it was too expensive. Nine survive.

Source: Wikipedia, Pascal's calculator

Pascaline at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris.
Pascaline at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris. CC BY-SA 3.0

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