Editing Curta (section)

== Popular culture ==
[[File:Curta Rechenmaschinen im Museum Enter Solothurn.jpg|thumb|The Curta collection of the Swiss entrepreneur Peter Regenass on display at the Enter Museum Solothurn]]

The Curta plays a role in [[William Gibson]]'s [[Pattern Recognition (novel)|''Pattern Recognition'']] (2003) as a piece of historic computing machinery as well as a crucial "trade" item.

In 2016 a Curta was designed by Marcus Wu that could be produced on a 3D printer.<ref name="Thingiverse">[https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1943171  The 3D-Printed Curta Calculator] on [[Thingiverse]] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012150442/https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1943171 |date= 12 October 2017 }})</ref> The Curta's fine tolerances were beyond the ability of printer technology of 2017 to produce to scale, so the printed Curta was about the size of a coffee can and weighed about three pounds.<ref name="Popular_Mechanics">{{Cite web |date=2017-07-15 |title=Building a Gorgeous Mechanical Calculator With 3D-Printed Parts |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27318/3d-printed-curta-calculator/ |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=Popular Mechanics |language=en-US}}</ref>