How the Pascaline Works

MechanicalComputing · 643K views · 2012 · 9:52

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Explains the inner workings of the Pascaline, the first successful mechanical calculator, with detailed animations.

Linked by 9 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, hackaday.com, righto.com, historyofinformation.com, eoswetenschap.eu.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Pascaline.