Photographs and Documents Relating to Calculating Machines
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content: These materials relate to collections and policies of the Felt & Tarrant Musuem, a collection of mecanical computing devices eventually given to the Smithsonian. Incuded are typescripts of articles and pictures of Edward Scheutz's calculating machine, information and photographs of the Schilt adding machine, information and photographs relating to the Bollee calculating machine, and a typescript called "The Romance of Figures." Also included is a typescript (with photographs) called "Development of a Keyboard;" Another, chronologically arranged, document is entitled "Evolution of Calculating Machines." Also included are a a variety of magazine and newspaper articles on adding and calculating machines, discussion of a Japanese calculating machine, and a typescript entitled "50 Years Grimme, Natalis & Co." There also are typed versions of articles about the performance of a human calculator named Inaudi vwho competed against calculating machines in Paris in 1924.
label: Description
content: There is one issue of a newsletter for Comptometer employees called <I>The Circle</I>, a leaflet on the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia, and reports and documents relating to accessioning practices at the Field Museum of Natural History. Finally, sheets describeaccessioning methods used at the Felt & Tarrant Museum.
label: Description
content: For related accessions, see 305775 and 250163.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Victor Comptometer Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.3107.05
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content: 1991.3107
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3107.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets And Photographs, Group Of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 22.5 cm x 28 cm; 19/32 in x 8 27/32 in x 11 1/32 in