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Schickard, W. 1623
Wilhelm Schickard, a German mathematician and clergyman, designed and built a mechanism which could add, subtract, multiply and divide. Schickard's machine was similar in operation to the slide rule but also incorporated a set of metal wheels that performed the arithmetical operations. Schickard called his device a "calculator-clock."
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