Geek Gadgets of Yesteryear
- Posted: May 20, 2008 at 8:41 PM
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Did Geeks exist in the 19th Century? They sure did. Did they have Geek gadgets. Oh, yes they did!
Telephones, typewriters, calculators: all blossomed through the 19th Century.
The screen capture is of a unique device called a Curta Calculator. Invented by Curt Herzstark, a survivor of Buchenwald, it looks like a pepper-grinder but is in fact a small calculator.
In this episode of The Geek Stories, see Matthew Connell, Curator of Mathematics and Computing at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, give a quick snoop through their secret storage area.
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