Jerry Merryman, one of the inventors of the handheld electronic calculator, has died. He was 86.
His boss said in 1965, "We'd like to have some sort of computing device, perhaps to replace the slide rule. It would be nice if it were as small as this little book."Phyllis Merryman / AP fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
"I have a Ph.D. in material science and I've known hundreds of scientists, professors, Nobel prize-winners and so on. Jerry Merryman was the most brilliant man that I've ever met. Period. Absolutely, outstandingly brilliant," said Vernon Porter, a former TI colleague and friend."He had an incredible memory and he had an ability to pull up formulas, information, on almost any subject.
Merryman added,"Silly me, I thought we were just making a calculator, but we were creating an electronic revolution." "He'd scrape together a few cents to go to the movies in the afternoons and evenings and the police would come get him out ... because their radios would break and he had to fix them," said Merryman's wife, Phyllis Merryman.
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