Computer Museum
The virtual museum of computer technology.
Mechanical Age
Computers 1100 BC-1950 AD.



Chinese Abacus (Suan Pan)
1100 BC

Logarithmic Slide by William Oughtred
1622

Arithmetical Machine by René de Grillet
1678


Arithmetical Machine by C. Caze
1720

Waever's Loom by jean Philippe Falcon, 1728

Pascal's arithmetic machines w. different figures
18th century

Pascal's arithmetic machine w. four figures plus sous and deniers
18th century


Older Russian Abacus (Счёты)
19th century

Waever's Loom by Joseph Jaquard, 1855

Reeding
mid 19th century

Multiplication Machine by Léon Bollée
1889

Arithmometer by Thomas de Colmar
1850

Arithmometer by Thomas de Bojano
1895

Vaucanson mechanical calculating machine 1930

Modern Russian Abacus (Счёты), 20th century

Calculating machine Odhner type 'La Dactyle', Early 20th century



Mechanical Calculator MADAS
Modell 1922