Scientific calculator was the first company to produce one (Casio fx-7000G). Scientific calculator A scientific calculator is a type of electronic calculator, usually but not always handheld, designed to calculate problems in science, engineering, and mathematics. They have almost completely replaced slide rules in traditional applications, and are widely used in both education and professional settings. In certain contexts such as higher education, scientific calculators have been superseded by graphing calculators, which offer a superset of scientific calculator functionality along with the ability to graph input data and write and store programs for the device. There is also some overlap with the
Union Electric Company Union Electric Company The Union Electric Company of Missouri (formerly ) was an electric power utility that was organized in 1902 and grew to be one of the S&P 500 largest companies in the United States. In 1997, its holding company merged with a smaller neighboring utility, Central Illinois Public Service Company through its holding company, CIPSCO Inc. (formerly ), to form Ameren Corporation () based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company's first incarnation, the Union Company, was organized in 1902 in St. Louis. Two years later, the renamed Union Electric Company built the 36,000 kW coal-fired Ashley Street Plant