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The Mercedes-Euklid is a
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calculator An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics. The first solid-state electronic calculator was created in the early 1960s. Pocket-sized ...
from the early twentieth century. It was built by ''Mercedes Büro-Maschinen Werke AG'' in
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, Germany in 1905. The first manual mechanical models utilized a proportional-lever design invented by
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in 1903. An electric model, the Mercedes Euklid 30, was released circa 1945, though it may not have been the company's first electric calculator. In the 1960s, another electric model was released under the name "Cellatron."


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Erhard Anthes, Die Mercedes Euklid (1910–1970)
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