Did you know that the first calculator capable of direct multiplication was invented by a Spaniard?💡
#OnThisDay in 1833, Ramón Silvestre Verea was born in San Miguel de Curantes, Pontevedra.
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After studying philosophy and literature for a time, Ramón decided to emigrate to Cuba ✈. There he trained as a journalist and became the editor of a newspaper, all the while publishing his novels📚.
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In 1874, he began working as a money changer between New York and Havana, and it was then that he decided to develop a device capable of calculating the equivalence between different currencies and gold💰.
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On 10 September 1878 he patented the ‘𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫’ in New York, an iron machine weighing about 26 kg and capable of adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying 9-digit figures.
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It was in this context that, true to his passion for mechanics, in 1863 he came up with his first invention, a machine for folding newspapers 🗞. He tried to patent it in New York, but a lack of funding forced him to sell the idea.
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