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  • Vizzini’s Calculating Table

    A minimalist calculator from Italy
  • Mario Loffredo’s elastic calculating scale

    A lost precursor of the Gerber Variable Scale
  • A calculator hidden in a book

    A truly intriguing device!
  • Kaufmann’s Posographe

    A mind-blowing mechanism for exposure calculation
  • Meet E. W. Fritchley

    A human connection across time and space
  • The Watkins exposure meter

    Light metering, 19th century style
  • Build your own airplane!

    The Hoffman Airplane Calculator
  • The Jeffers Calculator

    Keeping farm animals healthy through a nutritious diet!
  • The Genaille-Lucas financial rods

    An ingenious way of calculating with sticks
  • Martin’s huge multiplication table

    A tool from the time of Napoleon
  • The Data Scaler Proportional Rule

    A Gerber Variable Scale clone
  • Badalamenti’s factorization slide rule

    Well, not exactly a slide rule...
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