totalisator
Example Sentences
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With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Straus, a onetime General Electric engineer, invented the American totalisator, an electrical device whose 1,500,000 moving parts automatically calculate and indicate the odds in pari-mutuel betting.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was only one stand, and that was opposite the old jail; there was no totalisator and no book-makers.
From Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century by Montague Massey
On race days mounted military police are stationed outside the rails to keep order, and British troops are on duty in the enclosures keeping the gates, serving refreshments, and assisting in the totalisator.
From Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown
The Royal Engineers erected a grand stand of sandbags, and a totalisator.
From Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown
