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

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

Alito recalled his father sitting at the dining table with an adding machine, readjusting the size of the legislative districts after the Supreme Court adopted the "one-person, one-vote" rule in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2014

At one point, his calculations were effectively held up for a year while he waited for the university to provide him with a simple adding machine.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson