Big Ideas That Changed the World No. 2: Machines That Think!
The world had to wait 2,500 years for another big idea to show up the brainchild of the very brainy Blaise Pascal In 1642 Pascal a nineteen year old Frenchman was working beside his tax collector father Etienne
The two labored long into the night using counting boards to stay on top of the numbers 7
Keeping tax records wasn't easy adding subtracting dividing and multiplying So much work There has to a better way thought Pascal
The Pascaline was born It was a shoebox sized gadget that used gears wheels axles and dials to add numbers Not bad for a self taught engineer And it worked Well it kinda worked The Pascaline was best at addition Subtraction multiplication and division Not so great 9
