9-year-old electronic whiz builds own teaching machine
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Photograph article dated May 13, 1961 partially reads, "Steven E. Mercanet is a 9-year-old electronics whiz who has devised a most unusual way to learn his multiplication tables. He has built his own little teaching machine, complete with a flashing red light and a warning buzzer. 'I call it a quiz game,' Steven, a fourth grader at Calvert Street school in Woodland Hills, told an admiring visitor recently, 'But the real word for it is computer.' The youngster is the first to admit he doesn't know all his multiplication tables yet. But he feels much more confident in his chosen field of electronics."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Calvert Street Elementary School (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Students Computers and children--California--Los Angeles Computers--California--Los Angeles Computers, Special purpose Children as inventors--California--Los Angeles Boys--California--Los Angeles Multiplication--Tables Multiplication Woodland Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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