Merryman helped to develop the calculator in the mid-1960s while he was working for American technology company Texas Instruments.
Jerry Merryman, one of three men credited with inventing the hand-held electronic calculator, has died at the age of 86, the Associated Press reported.
“It was late 1965 and Jack Kilby, my boss, presented the idea of a calculator,” Merryman told NPR in 2013. “He called some people in his office. He says, we’d like to have some sort of computing device, perhaps to replace the slide rule. It would be nice if it were as small as this little book that I have in my hand.”
The prototype Cal-Tech handheld electronic calculator was built in the Semiconductor Research and Development Laboratory at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas. The National Museum of American History “I have a Ph.D. in material science, and I’ve known hundreds of scientists, professors, Nobel prize-winners and so on,” Vernon Porter, an ex-colleague and friend, told the Associated Press. “Jerry Merryman was the most brilliant man that I’ve ever met. Period. Absolutely, outstandingly brilliant. He had an incredible memory and he had an ability to pull up formulas, information, on almost any subject.
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