From spray-on condoms to radioactive wrinkle cream, “Flops?!,” at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris, puts terrible inventions in the spotlight.

Prêté au Musée d’Orsay pour plusieurs années, Le Désespéré – l’un des autoportraits les plus célèbres de Gustave Courbet – pourrait, à terme, être récupéré par son propriétaire. Réalisée entre 1843 et ...

The humble pocket calculator may not be able to keep up with the mathematical capabilities of new technology, but it will never hallucinate. The device's enduring reliability equates to millions of ...

A judge temporarily blocked the sale of this Pascaline, the only known example of a Pascaline used to measure distances. Christie's images Limited 2025 In 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise ...

A French court has blocked the export and foreign purchase of a 17th century arithmetic machine invented by Blaise Pascal to help ease the laborious task of calculating taxes. The sale of an ancient ...

The sale of an ancient arithmetic machine known as the 'Pascaline' has been suspended after a French administrative court blocked its export. Leading auction house Christie's decided to call off its ...

Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise ...

Véritable trésor exposé dans un musée de Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), la Pascaline va pouvoir rester en France. Comme l’indique ICI Pays d’Auvergne, la délivrance du certificat d’exportation de ...

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled in France, after a Paris court provisionally blocked the historic item from being exported. Auction house Christie's ...

[PARIS] Christie’s said on Wednesday (Nov 19) it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world’s first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and ...

Christie’s said on Wednesday (November 19, 2025) it was suspending the Paris auction of an example of the world’s first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise ...