Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp


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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Antares Rocket Raising

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is raised into the vertical position on launch Pad-0A, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Scheduled to launch Oct. 16, Orbital ATK’s cargo resupply mission will deliver over 5,100 pounds of science and research, supplies and hardware to the space station. via NASA http://ift.tt/2dpR19e