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These new surroundings hastened the development of an existing idea: an adding machine. His new job gave him the opportunity to build his prototype. Accuracy was the foundation of his work. He made his design drawings on metal plates to prevent distortion. Burroughs filed his first patent for the invention of a "calculating machine" in 1885. It ...
In 1909, Burroughs acquired the Pike Adding Machine Co. and in the same year began to sell Burroughs Pike visible adding machines. During the first decade of the 20th century, Burroughs faced competition from both key-driven calculators and a number of rival adding-listing machines, including Dalton, Pike, Standard, Universal, and Wales.
Main house on the summer estate of John E. Newell in Mentor, Ohio View of John E. Newell's estate house from across the pond @1903 [121] Newell, John Edmund(1861-1949) and(M-1891) Amie Sikes Carpenter(1865-1938) [122] President Jefferson Coal Company, trustee for the Society Savings [123] Ami was executive vice-president of the national Garden ...
Women and Men Working in Office at Standard Adding Machine Company, 3701 Forest Park Boulevard, May 1910. Standard Adding Machine Company was founded in the early 1890s (first records are from 1892) [2] [3] [4] in Illinois and was the first company to (successfully) [5] release a 10-key adding machine. The machine was a breakthrough for its ...
Dorr Eugene Felt (March 18, 1862 – August 7, 1930) was an American inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, [1] an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine.
Adding machine for the Australian pound c.1910, note the complement numbering, and the columns set up for shillings and pence. An adding machine is a class of mechanical calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. In the United States, the earliest adding machines were usually built to read in dollars and cents.
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Granot Loma, County Road 550 on the Lake Superior shore north of Thoneys Pt., Powell Township, Marquette, Michigan (Loma Farms complex, which was the farm component of a large estate, was constructed in 1927 by the Bartlett Construction Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Bartlett used a number of designs provided by the Louden Machinery Company ...