Sheets, Addition on the Abacus - Japanese Style
date: label: date made
content: 1946-11-25
name: label: publisher
content: TIME Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a typed copy of an article published in <Time> magazine Novermber 25, 1946. It describes a contest held earlier that month at the U.S. Army's Ernie Pyle Theater in Tokyo that featured a contest between Japanese abacus operator Kiyoshi Matsuzaki against Friden calculating machine operator Thomas Ian Wood , an Army private from Missouri. Comparing speed and accuracy, the abacus proved superior in addition, subtraction, division, and a compositr problem.. Wood won in multiplication.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Abacus
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of SCM Corporation, SCM Business Equipment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3084.170
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3084.170
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Set Of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 8 1/2 in x 11 1/32 in