Ramón Verea facts for kids
Ramón Verea (born in Curantes, Spain, on December 11, 1833 – died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 6, 1899) was a clever inventor, writer, and engineer from Galicia, a region in Spain. He is most famous for creating a special calculator in 1878. This calculator was amazing because it had a built-in way to do multiplication, making calculations much faster!
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Ramón Verea: The Calculator Genius
Ramón Verea was a very talented person. He worked as a journalist, writing for newspapers, and he was also an engineer, which means he designed and built things. But his biggest invention was a mechanical calculator.
How Ramón Verea's Calculator Worked
In 1878, Ramón Verea invented a calculator that was quite advanced for its time. Most calculators back then needed you to do multiplication step-by-step. But Verea's machine had an "internal multiplication table." This meant it could do multiplication automatically, which was a huge step forward! It made solving math problems much quicker and easier.
Ramón Verea's Other Talents
Besides being an inventor, Ramón Verea was also a writer. He wrote novels and essays. His writings often explored ideas about society and philosophy. He was a thinker who shared his thoughts with the world through his books and articles.
- La cruz de Cobblestone (The Cobblestone Cross)
- Una mujer con dos maridos (A Woman with Two Husbands)
He also wrote essays that discussed important topics, like:
- Artículos filosóficos y cartas a un campesino (Philosophical Articles and Letters to a Farmer)
- La religión universal (The Universal Religion)
- Catecismo librepensador (Freethinker's Catechism)
- En defensa de España (In Defense of Spain)
These writings show that Ramón Verea was interested in many different subjects, from science and engineering to philosophy and social issues.
See also
In Spanish: Ramón Verea para niños
