Talk:Mechanical calculator
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Schickard failed?
I am pretty sure Schickard didn't fail. His machine did not work flawless, but the Pascaline, Leibniz' machina arithmetica, Hahn's circular calculator and a lot of the other early designs (and even a lot of later machines) had flaws too, especially with overshoot of the number-wheels and failing ten's carrys. If Schickard failed, so did Pascal, Leibniz and a lot of others. So i think this has to be set straight ... may i try? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.186.119.110 (talk) 12:59, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Electrical mech. calcs?
I'd argue that a mech. calc. is a mech. calc. even if powered by electricity. It's the computation machinery that matters. So I changed the intro text to reflect this; a mech. calc. may be implemented with electricity but not by electronics. --Wernher 10:10, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Article needs additional text to either include or exclude such as there were both mechanical tabulators (that could add and subtract) and mechanical calculators.76.103.213.6 (talk) 07:18, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Operating an Odhner calculator
Removing the section of Operating an Odhner calculator. Wikipedia is not a HOWTO repository.
Please add animation & video files.
In this article, please add animations about how the part/ whole machine worked. Please add videos of operating these machines. Include machine-descriptions, explain mechanisms This article is already a very good and precious article. But addition of more animated and video files would improve this article much more. Rajarshi Rit 14:45, 25 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RIT RAJARSHI (talk • contribs)
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Ramón Verea
Shouldn't the Ramón Verea calculator be included in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.61.180.122 (talk) 08:29, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
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