Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp
If you’ve ever spent time thumbing through back issues of magazines like Scientific American, you may have seen ads for the Curta — a strange little device that resembles a pepper mill. It cost a shocking amount of money and was claimed to perform all sorts of arithmetic functions purely mechanically and with incredible precision.

October 14, 2016 at 04:10PM
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