Jerry Merryman

R.I.P. Jerry Meryman.

One of member of a team of engineers (along with Jack Kirby and Jim van Tassel) who developed the first hand held calculator.

Often known as "the man who killed the slide rule", Merryman was 86 years old.

When he was a kid, he "played" with a Gilbert Chemistry set (who remembers those?) and worked as a youngster repairing radios.

He attended Texas A & M and went on to work at Texas Instruments in 1963.

More info here:

https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Papers/JerryMerrymanBio_ByEdMillis.pdf

And also his obit:

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/03/05/us/ap-us-obit-calculator-inventor.html

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Thanks Jerry, for making my life, and a bunch of lives,?ÿ a whole lot easier.

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