Today's slide rule

Usage examples of calculator.

The grizzled head of the Chief Fire Controlman appeared from behind the calculator.

He took swift readings from the glowing dials, and integrated the results upon a calculator.

Human beings had gone the way of calculators and computers and servo-mechanisms, all the way to the supple and enormous gigabit webs that nurtured such Artificial Intelligences as Albert Einstein.

The winner of the competition was Herman Hollerith, whose electrically powered calculator was a monster device that not only processed numbers but displayed the progress of the process on large clocks for all to see.

Or have you run the obstacle course recently, recited numbers backward, looked at inkblots, or multiplied figures without your calculator?

For example, it was easy to remove the wires from the air lock indicator lamp and feed their signal into a relay section removed from the calculator, a section which would send a control pulse to the reactors if the air locks were opened twice.

Eventually, corner-cutting developers will sit down with a calculator and figure out that Andrew was bad for the bottom line.

He was frowning at the figures and diagrams, and stabbing savagely at a pocket calculator.

Others were cold calculators like Parkwood or meatgrinders like Eggy and Anna Treig.

The captain bent over the calculator, frowned and chewed the tip of his tongue as he worked the controls.

Then, as Bitter walked into the room, he returned his attention to the stack of papers on his desk, reaching several times from them to punch buttons on his Monroe Comptometer, then waiting with impatience as the automatic calculator clicked and spun through its computation process.

It was full of stuff only an insurance adjustor would have: a calculator with more tiny buttons than a leprechaun’s dress boots, notepads, coffee-stained folders, useless little calendars to stick on your fridge, and pens with smiley faces on them.

Unzipping the jumpsuit, he pulled out the hand calculator which disguised the camera and spent the next fifteen seconds hastily photographing images of the twin aeroshells in the Constellation's cargo bay.

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.

And of these the analog computers, the electronic calculators, were the gyroscope of all living.