Pamphlet, Rapid Mechanical Calculation
Pamphlet, Rapid Mechanical Calculation
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- Description
- This illustrated pamphlet describes the advantages of using the duplex Comptometer in the modern business world..
- The document was received with a Comptometer with museum number 1985.0120.01.
- Reference:
- P. A. Kidwell, “American Scientists and Calculating Machines: From Novelty to Commonplace,” Annals of the History of Computing, 12, 1990, pp. 31-40.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pamphlet
- Pamphlet
- date made
- 1905
- Maker
- Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 17.8 cm; 5 1/2 in x 7 in
- ID Number
- 1985.0120.02
- accession number
- 1985.0120
- catalog number
- 1985.0120.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of Milton and Judith Lowell
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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