Export ban halts the sale of inventor Blaise Pascal’s historic calculator, as scientists demand artefact receive ‘national ...

French scholars argued that the 17th-century Pascaline should go to a public collection and stay within the country. But a ...

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled in France, after a Paris court ...

A rare 17th-century calculating machine created by French mathematician Blaise Pascal has become the center of a heated legal ...

A French court has blocked the export and foreign purchase of a 17th century arithmetic machine invented by Blaise Pascal to ...

Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first ...

Christie’s suspends the auction of Pascal’s 1642 calculator, pending a court decision on export authorization.