The Calculator:

Few Household devices have come so far as the calculator. In terms of adaptability, it is second only to humans. This is commonly thought to be due to its symbiotic relationship with forementioned species. As we go back in history we can notice how the calculator had adapted to fit mans calculation needs, and as mans calculations increased so did the calculators adaptability. A perfect symbiot.


DEVELOPEMENT STAGE 1(SEE FIG.1): ABACUS

I read to you now a passage from the Book of Calcuator.

Abacus (Factual Version) 1:
1 In the beginning Thog created the beads and sticks.
2 Now the pieces were disconnected and useless, and Thog was hovering over the pile.
3 And Thog said "Thog make counting" and there was numbers. 4 Thog understood that the numbers were crude, but acceptable, and he connected the sticks to the beads. 5 Thog called the beads "slides," and the sticks he called "rods."

As you can see, as it is told in the "Thog" mythos, the Abasus 1st arived in ancient times. From this point we go on to the more reliable, understandable, provable, and reasonable explanation for the advancement of the calculator towards its current form.


DEVELOPEMENT STAGE 2(SEE FIG.2): NAPIER'S BONES

The abacus survived many generations, surviving upon the natural curiousity of humans. It introduced itself into their midst and reproduced exponentially as its hosts grew too in numbers, merging with them, and so it was able to feed from them, become part of their culture and reproduce. Around the year 1600, it came upon a human named John Napier. Incidently this human had the Mutant gene "Multiplicos" a rare mutation of "Additos" and "Subtractus". Upon merging with this human, the abacus(whose main genetic structrure is made of those afore mentioned genes.[See Fig.3]) then bonded with "Multiplicos", creating a whole nre animal. What would be named, Napier's bones after the particular human whose bone marrow genes the whole species carry.


DEVELOPEMENT STAGE 3(SEE FIG.4&5): SLIDE RULE & "CALCULATING CLOCK"

Near the year 1620, Napiers Bones spawned 2 subspecies known as the Slide Rule(which had simply fed off of mans want to be more organized.) and the Calculating CLock.

The Slide rule died out early, though it is important to note that it is not due to a lack of adaptablilty, as it did indfeed adapt to become more organized. However a new type of animal had spawned, mechanics. Due to the calculators ability to become a symbiot of any animal, and its proximity to the mechanics when it first surfaced, a different subspeciest of napiers bones spawned. Due to mans curious interest in mechanics, the calculating clock quickly reproduced, taking for itslef all the resourses of "napiers bones" and its new brother "slide rule".


DEVELOPEMENT STAGE 4(SEE FIG.6&7): COMPTOMETER (and electricity)

In 1884, humans developed a new trait. They suddenly were more interested in pushing buttons than in pressing levers, and spinning dials. Naturaly, the Comptometer came about from such a union.The Calculating Clock, its levers and dials no longer recieveing the nutrition of manual manipulation, simply died out, another victim of cicumstance.

From there, the desk calculator arived in much the same way, the comptometer adapted to man, as man which was adapting to electricity. Surprisingly, almost all of the comptometers picked up on this change and there was very few casualties. This occured in the year 1961.

This is where the calculator currently stands, sure there are some subspecies, such as the graphong calculator, the computer calculator, and others. However there are too many to mention and none contain significant evolutionary difference from their siblings.