How Pinwheel Calculators Work

MechanicalComputing · 152K views · 2012 · 8:59

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Explains the mechanical operation of 19th-century pinwheel calculators using visual demonstrations and historical context.

Linked by 4 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including usal.es, htw-berlin.de, clatteringeast.com, thomas-kirchhof.de.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Pinwheel calculator.