Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
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Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
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Jerry Merryman, the man who helped invent the hand-held calculator
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Calculator Inventor Dies, He Was 86
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Co-Inventor of the World's First Handheld Electronic Calculator
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Jerry Merryman, Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
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Jerry Merryman, co-inventor of handheld electronic calculator
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Jerry Merryman, A 'Brilliant' Man Who Was An Inventor Of The
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Brilliant' man who was an inventor of the calculator dies
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