Booklet, Directions for Operating the Comptometer
name: label: maker
content: Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This booklet, written by Dorr E. Felt, gives instructions for using the Comptometer to solve a wide range of arithmetic problems.The document was received with a later model of the Comptometer (see MA.335357).
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: P. A. Kidwell, “American Scientists and Calculating Machines: From Novelty to Commonplace,” <I>Annals of the History of Computing</I>, 12, 1990, pp. 31-40.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Adding Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304826.63
label: accession number
content: 304826
label: catalog number
content: 304826.63
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Booklet
label: Object Name
content: booklet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 16.7 cm; 5 1/8 in x 6 9/16 in