Monroe calculator
physical object
Identifier
2013.5.5
Description
When the university was founded in 1957, there were only a few dozen electronic computers in the country. The University of Toronto was the only school with its own computer.
Instead of learning to program, engineers, scientists and mathematicians were taught numerical analysis and statistical methods that could be carried out by hand with mechanical calculators like this Monroe.
This particular calculator once belonged to H.C. Ratz, who joined the Department of Electrical Engineering around 1964.
Related Term
Calculators (describes)
Related person
CEMC (was donor of)
