Wilhelm Schickard - Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Even though Schickard designed his machine twenty years earlier, Pascal is still the inventor of the mechanical calculator because the drawings of Schickard's calculating clock described a machine that was neither complete nor fully usable.

The Institute for Computer Science at the University of Tübingen is called the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik in his honor.

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