The sale of an ancient arithmetic machine known as the 'Pascaline' has been suspended after a French administrative court blocked its export. Leading auction house Christie's decided to call off its ...

(STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/AFP) Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first calculating machine, developed by French ...

A judge temporarily blocked the sale of this Pascaline, the only known example of a Pascaline used to measure distances. Christie's images Limited 2025 In 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise ...

Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a ...