alleryWho designed a gear-based adding and subtracting device in 1642?
AGottfried Leibniz
BBlaise Pascal
CAlan Turing
DCharles Babbage
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Blaise Pascal
The French mathematician Blaise Pascal built the gear device that could add and subtract.
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