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Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp
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An Interview with Curt Herzstark
Curt Herzstark discusses the history of the Austrian Calculating Machine Manufacturing Company, his father's inventions and the development of the CURTA hand-held calculator.
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the (abridged) story of Curt Herzstark, the brilliant Viennese engineer who invented an incredibly complex handheld mechanical calculator in the Buchenwald concentration camp
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(PDF) The Curta, a Technical Marvel
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Already in 1926-27 while I was in sales, people said again and again, "Yes, that is nice, but isn't there anything smaller?" This was a time when there was a lot of advertising of the calculating machine. Everyone who was a technician, carried his slide rule. But for calculating, the equivalent didn't exist. People again and again said, "Does somet... See more
Curt Herzstark • An Interview with Curt Herzstark
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his approach to designing the calculator - look at everything backwards .
this whole story exists by looking backwards - we look back in time to find him and his story.
broadly, ideas around time and progress seem to be perking up again and again
"I had an idea… I should look at everything backwards… I'll pretend I have already invented everything. What does this kind of machine have to look like, so someone could use it?”
Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp:
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the (abridged) story of Curt Herzstark, the brilliant Viennese engineer who invented an incredibly complex handheld mechanical calculator in the Buchenwald concentration camp
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