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    The Comptometer was the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator, patented in the United States by Dorr Felt in 1887. A key-driven...
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    mechanical calculators from 1901. In 1961, a comptometer type machine, the Anita Mk VII from Sumlock comptometer Ltd., became the first desktop mechanical...
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    Florida Tech Easy Instructions for Operation the Controlled Key Comptometer, Comptometer Division, Felt and Tarrant Mfg. Co., Chicago, 1917, p. 12 Carl...
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    not gain widespread use until Dorr E. Felt started manufacturing his comptometer (1887) and Burroughs started the commercialization of differently conceived...
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  • fiberglass and other modern materials. Fred Bear sold the company to Victor Comptometer in 1968, but remained the president of Bear Archery. The company was...
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    built by the Bell Punch Co. in Britain, and marketed through its Sumlock Comptometer division, they used vacuum tubes and cold-cathode switching tubes in...
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  • larger facilities in Dyersville, Iowa 1967 - Ertl is acquired by Victor Comptometer Corporation 1971 - Ertl acquires Carter Tru-Scale 1973 - Ertl begins...
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    the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers. It wasn't until 1902 that the familiar push-button user interface was...
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    calculator in the world, ten years later, by 1900, four machines, the comptometer and Burroughs' adding machine in the USA, Odhner's Arithmometer in Russia...
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    "smaller than a typewriter". The original prototype was built by Victor Comptometer using vacuum tubes in 1963. When this was successful, the company sought...
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  • In 1961, Cass Hough, the president of Daisy Heddon division of Victor Comptometer, purchased the design of a new firearm system. The new system was developed...
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    American inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding...
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  • era coat buttons; a collection of Montie Montana memorabilia; a 1915 comptometer; and a 2005 Suzuki GSX-R 1300 Hayabusa motorcycle. Upset over dwindling...
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    Belgium. Oldham's Australian-born mother, Celia Oldham, was a nurse and comptometer operator. Oldham attended the Aylesbury School for Boys, Cokethorpe School...
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    to help support her family. She lost her first job (as a typist and comptometer operator) after taking her guitar to work and playing it during tea-breaks...
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    Edward A. Everett, Wisconsin State Representative Dorr Felt, inventor of comptometer Edwin G. Fifield, Wisconsin State Representative Bill Flannigan, NFL...
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    early electronic desktop calculators, including the first: the Sumlock-Comptometer ANITA Mk VII of 1961 and even the first electronic telephone switchboards...
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  • Victor Technology, known earlier as Victor Adding Machine Co. and Victor Comptometer, an American calculator company Victor (sports company), a Taiwanese...
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  • the Tesla Model 3 Honda e, an electric car by Honda Comptometer Model E, a version of the Comptometer mechanical calculator Vickers Model E machine gun...
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    Otherwise, pressing a 5..9 key would require either a longer stroke (as in a Comptometer) or excessive force combined with a gently sloping cam surface. – Curt...
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    23 custom integrated circuits for an electronic calculator for Victor Comptometer proved to be too ambitious given the reliability of PMOS circuits at...
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    designs were completed in Babbage's lifetime. The Arithmometer and the Comptometer are mechanical computers that are precursors to modern digital computers...
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  • the Comptometer Corporation, which produced calculating machines and a telecommunication device called the Electrowriter. In 1965 Victor Comptometer Corporation...
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    Buehler Library, named in honor of the former president of the Victor Comptometer Corporation and board of trustees member, is home to over 237,000 volumes...
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  • he became a business executive with Olin Corporation and later Victor Comptometer and then chair and principal owner of AquaVac Systems. He was president...
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    such as the abacus, log tables, slide rule, stepped reckoner, or the comptometer, but the most commonly used device for everyday commerce was the ready...
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    state park that is undergoing restoration. Built by the inventor of the comptometer in 1928, the Felt's summer home was sold to the St. Augustine Seminary...
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  • and AFL football defensive back Dorr Felt (1862–1930), inventor of the Comptometer, an early computing device Edward P. Felt (1959–2001), a victim of the...
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    become the Intel 4004, and on their sales trips they visited Victor Comptometer in Chicago looking for potential customers. Victor had introduced the...
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  • That same year, the company entered an agreement to convert a Victor Comptometer tube-based electronic calculator to all-IC form, the Victor 3900, with...
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