Jerry Merryman, one of three men credited with inventing the handheld calculator, died on Feb. 27 from complications of heart and kidney failure, The Associated Press reports. He was 86. Between 1965 ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Jerry Merryman, one of the three men credited with inventing the hand-held calculator while working at Dallas-based Texas Instruments, has died. He was 86. Merryman died Feb.

A behind-the-scenes look at how the original handheld digital calculator was created by Jack Kilby’s team of engineers at TI, as told by the grandson of LED inventor James R. Biard. In 1966, there ...

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Calculators, a no-no in classrooms a few decades ago, are everywhere these days, with supporters saying the small hand-held devices have helped revolutionize math education. Since the mid-1980s, when ...

In the mid-1960s, Jerry Merryman and two colleagues at Texas Instruments Inc. were given a project that would forever change math homework. Their assignment: create an electronic calculator, with a ...

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Scientists might come up with great ideas for new technology, but it doesn't make much of a difference unless manufacturers start using the ideas. In the case of the integrated chip, industry was ...

In addition to the references cited below, information about specific calculators is given in individual records. This list suggests both references found especially useful and the kind of sources ...

If you’ve ever used an electric hand-held calculator in your life, you can thank Jerry Merryman for helping make your math life easier. Merryman – who along with two other men invented the little ...

With the advent of the graphing calculator, mathematics educators immediately recognized its potential for improving both the efficiency and the effectiveness of mathematics instruction by using it to ...