Some of the greatest people in European scientific history are involved in this affair. There are other, who attempted to create such devices, but almost nothing had survived to our time, like the Dutch Jesuit-mathematician Johann Ciermans (1602-1648), who mentioned in a 1640 book, Annus positionum mathematicarum, that he created a mechannical calculator with wheels, suitable for multiplication and division.
Wilchelm Schickard (1623)—the Calculating Clock
Blaise Pascal (1642)—the Pascaline