Young Calculating Machine Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1849
name: label: patentee
content: Young, Samuel S.
label: maker
content: Young, Samuel S.
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden patent model for an adder has a frame that holds seven strips of wood. Each strip has 19 holes on it. The ten right holes are numbered from 0 to 9. The nine remaining holes are unnumbered, but the wood is colored green. To the sides of each strip, the numbers 1 to 9 are written on the frame. The left part of the strip is covered by an upper piece on the frame.
label: Description
content: Samuel S. Young of Eaton, Ohio, took out three patents for computing devices. This is the patent model for the first. The later ones were a rule for calculating interest, patented September 2, 1851 (U.S. patent 8323), and an arithmetical proof rule, patented October 26, 1858 (U.S. patent 21921).
label: Description
content: The U.S. Census for 1850 indicates that S. S.Young of Eaton, Ohio, was 40 years old that year, and living with his wife and two children. His occupation is given as “gardener.” Apparently by 1860 he had moved to the nearby town of Washington and is listed as a “horticulturalist” by profession.
label: Description
content: References: Samuel S. Young, Calculating-Machine, U.S. Patent, No. 6602, issued July 24, 1849.
label: Description
content: Robert Otnes, “Sliding Bar Calculators,” <I>ETCetera</I>, #11, June, 1990, p. 6.
label: Description
content: P. Kidwell, “Adders Made and Used in the United States,” <I>Rittenhouse</I>, May, 1994, p. 80.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Eaton
label: place patented
content: United States: Ohio, Eaton
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Adder
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.252680
label: catalog number
content: 252680
label: accession number
content: 49064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adder
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .7 cm x 9.8 cm x 15.6 cm; 9/32 in x 3 27/32 in x 6 5/32 in