A French court has blocked the export and foreign purchase of a 17th century arithmetic machine invented by Blaise Pascal to ...

Christie's suspended its sale of the first calculating machine after an export ban kept it from leaving France, according to ...

A rare 17th-century calculating machine created by French mathematician Blaise Pascal has become the center of a heated legal ...

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled in France, after a Paris court ...

Christie’s, the British auction house, has halted the sale of the world's first calculator “La Pascaline” in Paris. The ...

Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first ...

The Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator, was built in 1642 by mathematician Blaise Pascal.

Christie’s suspends the auction of Pascal’s 1642 calculator, pending a court decision on export authorization.

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled in France, after a Paris court ...

In 1867, Frederick A. P. Barnard, a mathematician and the president of Columbia University in New York, served as a judge at the Exposition universelle, a world’s fair held in Paris. There he saw a ...

In the early 20th century, William A. Morschhauser of New York City became the exclusive American distributor of the Millionaire calculating machine. He placed machines at several United States ...

Export ban halts the sale of inventor Blaise Pascal’s historic calculator, as scientists demand artefact receive ‘national ...