- Welcome to the Odhner related stuff site.
- The name is derived from 'Odensåker', a parish lying between the Swedish lakes Vattern and Vanern. The first Odhner was a preacher there.
These days, most Odhners are found in the USA and Sweden, but there are rumors of Odhners lurking everywhere around the world.
In the 1870s, Willgodt Theophil Odhner invented and developed the most successful mechanical scientific calculator. The Odhner pinwheel calculator design dominated scientific number crunching for the better part of a century until a manufacturer (Busicom of Japan) hired a new American firm (Intel) to manufacture a chip to use in an electronic calculator that would replace their line of Odhner pinwheel calculators. The resulting chip, the 4004, and later, the 8008, 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4, can be said to have evolved directly from the Odhner Pinwheel calculator. (Well, it can be said . . .)
Carl Theophilus Odhner wrote on the works of Emanual Swedenborg.
Dr. Hugo Lj. Odhner was a theologian and Dean of a Swedenborgian Theological School -- One of the links leads to the "Human Organic" website, which is dedicated to Dr. Odhner.
Nils Hjalmar Odhner discovered a family of Nudibranchs, which has caused an infestation of the web by sea slugs bearing the Odhner family name. They are of no relation.
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