Comptometer
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- The first comptometers
- Comptometer and comptograph
- Competition
- Companies and trademarks
- Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company
- Comptograph Company
- Comptometer Corporation
- Bell Punch Company – Sumlock Comptometer Ltd
- Victor Comptometer Corporation
- Development
- Wooden boxes
- Model A
- Model B, C, D
- Model E
- Model F
- Model H, J, ST
- Model K
- Model M, WM
- Post World War II models
- See also
- References
- External links
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The comptometer was the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator, patented in the United States by Dorr Felt in 1887.
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