Photograph of First Handheld Calculator in the Laboratory
date: label: date made
content: ca 1966
label: date made
content: 1966
name: label: maker
content: Texas Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: This mounted photograph shows the Texas Instruments laboratory where Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel worked at inventing the handheld calculator. The boxes numbered from 1 to 6 contain breadboards used to build and test calculator functions with established technologies, The prototype handheld device is in the right bottom corner. A label mounted below the photograph reads: FIRST HAND-HELD CALCULATOR-1966. For an enclosed prototype, presented to Texas Instruments leadership in 1967, see CI.336000.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Dallas
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Texas Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.336025
label: catalog number
content: 336025
label: accession number
content: 319050
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 51 cm x 41 cm; 20 1/16 in x 16 1/8 in