Which adding machines for your office are best? While adding machines, sometimes referred to as printing calculators, may seem outdated and obsolete, they remain indispensable for offices all over the ...

As part of All Things Considered's series on now-obsolete sounds, listeners recall fond memories of the old mechanical adding machine. We asked listeners to send sounds from older technologies, things ...

An early adding machine, c. 1890, invented by William Seward Burroughs, grandfather of the beat writer. National Museum of American History Today every phone is a calculator, but in the late 1800s, ...

Newly-sworn Logan County Commissioner Jane Bauder didn’t waste any time getting her office properly equipped. Because of her bookkeeping background, Bauder said she’s more comfortable using an ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This machine incorporates ideas of ...

For as busy as things can get at the grocery store on a typical afternoon just before the dinner hour, at least the modern experience has one thing going for it: it’s relatively quiet. Aside from the ...

This full-keyboard printing manual adding machine has a steel frame painted black, with the portion under the keyboard green. There are eight columns of color-coded ...