Known Machines
Most of the machines that have survived the centuries are of the accounting type. Seven of them are in European museums, one belongs to the IBM corporation and one is in private hands.
| Location |
Country |
Machine Name |
Type |
Wheels |
Configuration |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNAM museum Paris |
France | Chancelier Séguier | Accounting | 8 | 6 x 10 + 20 + 12 | |
| CNAM museum Paris |
France | Christina, Queen of Sweden | Scientific | 6 | 6 x 10 | |
| CNAM museum Paris |
France | Louis Périer | Accounting | 8 | 6 x 10 + 20 + 12 | Louis Périer, Pascal's nephew, offered it to the Académie des sciences de Paris in 1711. |
| CNAM museum Paris |
France | Late (Tardive) | Accounting | 6 | 4 x 10 + 20 + 12 | This machine was assembled in the XVIIIth century with unused parts. |
| musée Henri Lecoq Clermont-Ferrand |
France | Marguerite Périer | Scientific | 8 | 8 x 10 | Marguerite (1646–1733) was Pascal's goddaughter. |
| Musée Henri Lecoq Clermont-Ferrand |
France | Chevalier Durant-Pascal | Accounting | 5 | 3 x 10 + 20 + 12 | This is the only known machine that came with a box. This is the smallest machine. Was it meant to be portable? |
| Mathematisch-Physikalischer salon, Dresden | Germany | Queen of Poland | Accounting | 10 | 8 x 10 + 20 + 12 | The second wheel from the right has a wheel with 10 spokes contained in a fixed wheel with 20 segments. This could be attributed to a bad restoration. |
| Léon Parcé collection | France | Surveying | 8 | 5 x 10 + 6 + 12 + 12 | This machine was bought as a broken music box in a French antique shop in 1942. | |
| IBM collection | USA | Accounting | 8 | 6 x 10 + 20 + 12 |
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