The arithmometer (French: arithmomètre) was the first digital mechanical calculator strong and reliable enough to be used daily in an office environment...
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The Odhner Arithmometer was a very successful pinwheel calculator invented in Russia in 1873 by W. T. Odhner, a Swedish immigrant. Its industrial production...
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arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator available for sale until the industrial production of the more successful Odhner Arithmometer...
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Charles Xavier Thomas (section Arithmometer)
the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, known as the Arithmometer. Additionally, he founded the insurance companies Le Soleil and L'aigle...
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Thomas de Colmar when he used it, a century and a half later, in his Arithmometer, the first mass-produced calculating machine. It was also used in the...
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business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs. The company's history paralleled...
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extremely popular with the success of Thomas' Arithmometer (manufactured 1850s) and Odhner Arithmometer (manufactured 1890s). In "Machina arithmetica...
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working in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, which by the 1940s was one of the most popular type of portable mechanical...
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100th anniversary of the invention of the arithmometer, Torres presented in Paris the Electromechanical Arithmometer, which allowed a user to input arithmetic...
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100th anniversary of the invention of the arithmometer, Torres presented in Paris the Electromechanical Arithmometer, a prototype that demonstrated the feasibility...
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forty years later, by 1890, about 2,500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers (Burkhardt, Germany, 1878...
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Theophil Odhner (1845–1905), Swedish engineer and inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer working in Russia Nils Johan Teodor Odhner (1879–1928), Swedish arctic...
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The American Arithmometer Company was an American manufacture organized in St. Louis, Missouri in 1886 by William S. Burroughs that produced adding machines...
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multiplication feature to the Pascaline. In 1820, Thomas de Colmar designed his arithmometer, the first mechanical calculator strong enough and reliable enough to...
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mechanical calculator industry in 1851 when he released his simplified arithmometer (it took him thirty years to refine his machine, patented in 1820, into...
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100th anniversary of the invention of the arithmometer, Torres presented in Paris the electromechanical arithmometer, which consisted of an arithmetic unit...
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fallback Vehicle identification number – System for identifying vehicles Arithmometer – 19th-century mechanical calculator patented by French inventor Thomas...
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banking industry, and adoption spread. Burroughs founded the American Arithmometer Company in 1886. After his death, in 1904 partner John Boyer renamed...
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A Walther WSR160 arithmometer from 1960. Each turn of the crank handle adds (up) or subtracts (down) the operand set to the top register from the value...
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Industrial Revolution had produced mass-market calculators like the arithmometer and the enabling technology of the punch card. Charles Babbage proposed...
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was the first machine in production to challenge the supremacy of the arithmometer and its clones; but not immediately, it took almost three years to sell...
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the launch vehicle and the satellite were initially calculated using arithmometers and six-digit trigonometric tables. More complex calculations were carried...
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stylus was used to turn the dials. Later devices of this type include the Arithmometer, in the 1860s; and the Addiator, in 1920. The Addiator was a pocket mechanical...
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calculator in 1685 and invented the Leibniz wheel, later used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator. In philosophy and theology...
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gun – Thorsten Nordenfelt Northrop Loom – James Henry Northrop Odhner Arithmometer – Willgodt Theophil Odhner Odón device – Jorge Odón Ormerod link – Edward...
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said to encapsulate most of the elements of modern computers. Odhner Arithmometer, 1873 – W. T. Odhner's calculator who had millions of clones manufactured...
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entered through a typewriter, as was the case of his Electromechanical Arithmometer in 1920. In 1938, Konrad Zuse of Berlin completed the Z1, the first binary...
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none of the larger designs were completed in Babbage's lifetime. The Arithmometer and the Comptometer are mechanical computers that are precursors to modern...
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the office of a life insurance company at St. Louis, he had seen an arithmometer, a calculating machine devised by Charles Xavier Thomas around 1820 and...
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Order of Studies John Scott Medal, Franklin Institute Mechanical Calculators of the 19th Century Hill Arithmometer U.S. Patent 18692 T. Hill Arithmometer...
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