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 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise Pascal invented what many regard as the world’s first mechanical calculator: ...

A Paris court has halted the sale of one of the world's oldest known calculators, blocking its scheduled auction and export ...

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

A court has suspended the export license of the 17th-century arithmetic device designed by Blaise Pascal, the last such ...

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

Christie’s said on 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 mathematician and inventor Blaise ...