adding machine

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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

Mandell's Solomon, his hands aflutter as though dancing on the keys of an adding machine, traverses the stage like an old bird on twig-like legs that are about to snap.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2015

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

The office manager made the only noise in the office with his typewriter and adding machine, both of which Ignatius found slightly distracting.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole