A Type I Curta handheld mechanical calculator, the smallest mechanical calculator ever made – designed by Kurt Herzstark in the Buchenwald concentration camp, he survived because the Nazis wanted to present his invention to Hitler after the war.


A Type I Curta handheld mechanical calculator, the smallest mechanical calculator ever made – designed by Kurt Herzstark in the Buchenwald concentration camp, he survived because the Nazis wanted to present his invention to Hitler after the war.