Where does it come from????

Question

My cousin is doind her summer homework and could anybody tell where the first calculator come from?

Answer 1

Experience comes with being old therefore I already knew that the abacus was the first. they used them in Catholic school when I went.
I've included just about all of the information involving the first calculators .
Quite interesting.

The first actual calculating mechanism known to us is the abacus, which is thought to have been invented by the....... Babylonians .........
......sometime between 1,000 BC ...........
and 500 BC, although
some { pundits} (A source of opinion; a critic A learned person.)
are of the opinion
that it was actually invented by
the Chinese (see also The first place-value number system).
http://www.maxmon.com/1000bc.htm

Texas Instruments
Cal-Tech:

............World's First Pocket .....................
................Electronic Calculator:.............
Incorporated (TI) in 1966 by a development team which included Jerry D. Merryman, James H. Van Tassel and Jack St. Clair Kilby. In 1974 a basic patent for miniature electronic calculators has been issued to Texas Instruments Incorporated.
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/ti_cal-tech.html

Fascinating facts about the invention of Hand-held Calculaors by Jack St. Clair Kilby, Jerry D. Merryman and James H. Van Tassel in 1966.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/handcalculator.htm

The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0008177C-EA28-1FD3-A7EA83414B7F012C

........The First Mechanical Calculators..........
Some very interesting sketches of early calculators.
http://www.diycalculator.com/popup-h-mechcalc.shtml

Answer 2

Check out Calculator on the wikipedia.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator