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    An adding machine is a class of mechanical calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. Consequently, the earliest adding machines were...
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  • The Adding Machine is a 1923 play by Elmer Rice; it has been called "... a landmark of American Expressionism, reflecting the growing interest in this...
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  • Adding Machine is a musical with music by Joshua Schmidt, and book and lyrics by Schmidt and Jason Loewith. It is an adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 play...
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    major developments in computing. At its start, it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. It was...
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  • An adding machine is a form of calculator. Adding machine may also refer to: The Adding Machine, 1923 play by Elmer Rice The Adding Machine (film), 1969...
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  • The Adding Machine is a 1969 British fantasy comedy drama film produced, written, and directed by Jerome Epstein and starring Milo O'Shea, Phyllis Diller...
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  • Company - Major Organ and the Adding Machine Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine Major Organ and the Adding Machine, Opticalatlas.com Ari Wiznitzer...
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    few digits (e.g. adding 1 to 999), but further study and working replicas refute this claim. Schickard tried to build a second machine for the astronomer...
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  • The Adding Machine: Collected Essays is a collection of essays written by Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs. This collection was first published...
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  • non-singular odometers may be defined. These are sometimes referred to as adding machines. The simplest is illustrated with the Bernoulli process. This is the...
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    10-key adding machine. The machine was a breakthrough for its time because it dramatically modernized computing. Earlier key driven adding machines, like...
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  • and Puerto Rico through independent office supply dealers. Victor Adding Machine Co. was a fledgling company in 1918 when the operator of a chain of...
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  • Examples include: Tabulating machine Accounting machine Adding machine Typewriter Computer Photocopier International Business Machines, better known as IBM John...
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    tables. The machine could add and subtract six-digit numbers, and indicated an overflow of this capacity by ringing a bell. The adding machine in the base...
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    tables to ease the process of multiplication and division with the adding machine as a means of completing this operation. There is a debate about whether...
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    Pascaline (redirect from Arithmetic machine)
    father's work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen, France. He designed the machine to add and subtract two numbers and to perform multiplication and division...
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    Addition (redirect from Adding)
    invented the mechanical calculator in 1642; it was the first operational adding machine. It made use of a gravity-assisted carry mechanism. It was the only...
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  • machines have one input and one output: edge detector using XOR binary adding machine clocked sequential systems (a restricted form of Moore machine where...
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    Jeff Mangum (category Major Organ and the Adding Machine members)
    While working with the people involved in the Major Organ and the Adding Machine act, a short film by the same name was curated. Mangum contributed to...
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    Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for his direction of The Adding Machine. In 2018, Cromer won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical...
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    conceptualised flying machines, a type of armoured fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, a ratio machine that could be used in an adding machine, and the double...
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  • Everest adding machines, Tramiel convinced Everest to give him and Kapp exclusive Canadian rights to its products and established Everest Office Machines in...
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    A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices...
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    machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, washer, or simply wash) is a machine designed to launder clothing. The term is mostly applied to machines that...
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    on the wheels. Later, a similar machine called the Operator's Bell was produced that included the option of adding a gum-vending attachment. As the gum...
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    A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire. Automatic firearms of 20 mm (0.79 in) caliber or more are...
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    where he worked in the Boyer Machine Shop. These new surroundings hastened the development of an existing idea: an adding machine. His new job gave him the...
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    St. Louis, Missouri in 1886 by William S. Burroughs that produced adding machines. Burroughs was born in Rochester, New York in 1855, after receiving...
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    1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life...
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