adding machine
Example Sentences
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The first adding machine was invented in 1623.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023
Bowman is a language dervish—the pleasure in hearing him describe the adding machine, the source of William S. Burroughs’s family as “the rosary of capitalism,” belongs not to me but to literature.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019
Composed mostly during one anxious December on a roll of adding machine tape, it set the template for the others, including the National Book Award-winning "Garbage."
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2018
In offices, worker productivity benefited from the typewriter, invented in 1867, the cash register, invented in 1879, and the adding machine, invented in 1885.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Some of it had gotten all the way over onto August’s adding machine.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
