The power of words is amazing in each of our lives. It has been well said, “Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.” ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq ... at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Blaise Pascal builds a mechanical calculator in 1642.

Today, I listened to the story of Blaise Pascal ... These are but a few of his inventions. On September 19, 1648, Pascal virtually gave us the barometer, and thus he contributed, to the science ...