First Calculator Invented By Blaise Pascal

1642 before the invention of the calculators slide rules were used for calculation.
First calculator invented by blaise pascal. Pascal s calculator also known as the arithmetic machine or pascaline is a mechanical calculator invented by blaise pascal in the early 17th century. Pascal invented his numerical wheel calculator called the pascaline to help his father by then a french tax collector count taxes. The slide rule is used primarily for multiplication and division and also for scientific purposes such as roots logarithms and trigonometry. Slide rule is a mechanical calculating tool.
The device was called pascal s calculator or the pascaline or the arithmetique. It was in 1642 that blaise pascal in his endeavor to help his father to solve tedious tax calculations invented the first and world s only fully functional mechanical calculator. His calculator also known as pascal s calculator or pascaline could perform multiplication division addition and subtraction. Pascal s father was the tax collector for the township of rouen.
The pascaline was designed and built by the french mathematician philosopher blaise pascal between 1642 and 1644. In 1642 at the age of 18 pascal invented and build the first digital calculator as a means of helping his father perform tedious tax accounting. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father s work as the supervisor of taxes in rouen.