Step Reckoner (STEPRECK)
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Type of award: Internally funded project
Start date: 01/09/2003
End date: 04/09/2005
Website: http://stepreckoner.com
Abstract
A Leibniz wheel or stepped drum was a cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, was used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators. Invented by Leibniz in 1673, it was used for three centuries until the advent of the electronic calculator in the mid-1970s. Leibniz built a machine called the Stepped Reckoner based on that design in 1694.[1] It was made famous by Thomas de Colmar when he used it, a century and a half later, in his Arithmometer, the first mass-produced calculating machine.[2] It was also used in the Curta calculator, a very popular portable calculator introduced in the second part of the 20th century.
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- Stepped Reckoner
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