The Inner Gallery West

• Follow the development of the abacus from Greece to Rome to Asia
• Learn calculating methods such as Napier’s rods, Lattice multiplication and logarithms using a slide rule.
• Study the connection of weaving looms to computers.

Calculating devices are old, very old! Today we might use a pocket-sized calculator to add, subtract, multiply and divide, but this technology has only been available in recent decades. See on display a collection of calculating devices predating our modern calculators by 2000 years!