Herbert Bruderer

As has only recently become known, forced labor occurred at a former Bührle textile factory in Toggenburg, Switzerland. This and other Bührle companies played a significant role in Swiss IT history.

A wealth of information about the history of technology and industry.

The story of Viennese engineer Curt Herzstark and the world's smallest mechanical calculating machine, the Curta.

As far as we know, only three or four original specimens of the Roman hand abacus have survived.

Up to the second half of the 19th century —with the exception of the industrial power Great Britain—the protection of inventions was inadequate and strongly disputed.

Until the middle of the 20th century, computers were in fact humans who performed calculations.