https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/e9c9d16d-ff8a-4207-a064-f5396e613289 Beautifully made with 2,300 crafted parts, the Facit mechanical calculator first entered the market in 1932. And for the next forty years it basically stayed the same. The Swedish company that made it, Facit, employed thousands of people around the world to build and sell them. Then over the span of just two years, they went from millions of dollars in profit to annihilation. In this video, we are going to talk about a faded Swedish icon. Links: The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.com, Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry, The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry, Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:52:52 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.loping.net https://tube.loping.net/lazy-static/avatars/8a56e488-2120-4649-a417-badf5893657b.png https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/e9c9d16d-ff8a-4207-a064-f5396e613289 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.loping.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.