Now this is an amazing piece of machinery. A completely mechanical calculator, sturdy, compact and beautiful to boot.

(Via Engadget.)

The video explains how it works for adding, substracting, and multiplying, but it can also do divisions. All this by moving sliders and turning the crank.

You can find more details about Curta calculators on Wikipedia, the Calculator Reference, Curta.org and many more sites.

And if you’ve read William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition”, that will ring a bell. And if you haven’t, just go and read it. Now.

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