Fun Fact Friday! Fact #8
Posted by Samantha Soltesz on August 19, 2011.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) a French mathematician and philosopher was the first person ever reported to wear a watch on their wrist. With his pocket watch and a piece of string, Blaise Pascal attached his pocket watch to his wrist. Also at age eighteen Pascal invented the Pascaline, a numerical wheel calculator that was made to help his father a French tax collector count taxes.
What was your very first watch?
Samantha Soltesz
Pacific Bay Watch
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It’s much easier to undretsand when you put it that way!