Pascal Technologies, Inc.

Pascal Technologies is an 18 year old company located in Fredericksburg, Virginia with remote offices in the Northeast and Southeast United States. Pascal Technologies is a manufacturer's representative and a distributor organization supporting the requirements of the high technology community. As a representative and distributor, we supply a large range of vacuum components, oils, and gauges to support our customer's needs. Our experienced sales staff has a combined total of over 50 years in semiconductor and related industries. With our broad range of state-of-the-art equipment, Pascal Technologies can supply your vacuum product requirements and urgent material deliveries as a single source supplier.

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Pascal Technologies is named after the noted Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
"Among the contemporaries of Descartes, none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, ... during a considerable part of his life, he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises. At sixteen, Pascal wrote an essay on conic sections; and in 1641, at the age of eighteen, he constructed the first arithmetical machine, and instrument which, eight years later, he further improved. His correspondence with Fermat about this time shows that he was then turning his attention to analytical geometry and physics. He repeated Torricelli's experiments, by which the pressure of the atmosphere could be estimated as a weight, and he confirmed his theory of the cause of barometrical variations by obtaining at the same instant reading at different altitudes on the hill of Puy-de-Dôme. In 1650, when in the midst of these researches, Pascal suddenly abandoned his favorite pursuits to study religion, or, as he says in his Pensées, "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man". In 1653, he had to administer his father's estate. He now took up his old life again, and made several experiments on the pressure exerted by gases and liquids; it was also about this period that he invented the arithmetical triangle, and together with Fermat created the calculus of probabilities. ... In effect, he puts his argument that, as the value of eternal happiness be very small, still the expectation (which is measured by the product of the two) must be of sufficient magnitude to make it worth while to be religious."
- From "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Hall
This work contains "Pascal's wager" which claims to prove that belief in God is rational with the following argument: If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing.