- The
Comptometer was the
first commercially successful key-driven
mechanical calculator,
patented in the
United States by Dorr Felt in 1887. A key-driven...
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mechanical calculators from 1901. In 1961, a
comptometer type machine, the
Anita Mk VII from
Sumlock comptometer Ltd.,
became the
first desktop mechanical...
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Florida Tech Easy
Instructions for
Operation the
Controlled Key
Comptometer,
Comptometer Division, Felt and
Tarrant Mfg. Co., Chicago, 1917, p. 12 Carl...
- not gain
widespread use
until Dorr E. Felt
started manufacturing his
comptometer (1887) and
Burroughs started the
commercialization of
differently conceived...
- the only
other competitor in true
commercial production, had sold 100
comptometers. It wasn't
until 1902 that the
familiar push-button user
interface was...
-
built by the Bell
Punch Co. in Britain, and
marketed through its
Sumlock Comptometer division, they used
vacuum tubes and cold-cathode
switching tubes in...
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larger facilities in Dyersville, Iowa 1967 - Ertl is
acquired by
Victor Comptometer Corporation 1971 - Ertl
acquires Carter Tru-Scale 1973 - Ertl begins...
- fibergl**** and
other modern materials. Fred Bear sold the
company to
Victor Comptometer in 1968, but
remained the
president of Bear Archery. The
company was...
-
calculator in the world, ten
years later, by 1900, four machines, the
comptometer and Burroughs'
adding machine in the USA, Odhner's
Arithmometer in Russia...
- to help
support her family. She lost her
first job (as a
typist and
comptometer operator)
after taking her
guitar to work and
playing it
during tea-breaks...
