Definitions for ADDING MACHINE
adding ma·chine

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1. adding machine, totalizer, totalisernoun

   a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions

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1. Adding machine

   An adding machine is a class of mechanical calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. In the United States, the earliest adding machines were usually built to read in dollars and cents. Adding machines were ubiquitous office equipment until they were phased out in favor of calculators in the 1970s and by personal computers beginning in about 1985. The older adding machines were rarely seen in American office settings by the year 2000. Blaise Pascal and Wilhelm Schickard were the two original inventors of the mechanical calculator in 1642. For Pascal, this was an adding machine that could perform additions and subtractions directly and multiplication and divisions by repetitions, while Schickard's machine, invented several decades earlier, was less functionally efficient but was supported by a mechanised form of multiplication tables. These two were followed by a series of inventors and inventions leading to those of Thomas de Colmar, who launched the mechanical calculator industry in 1851 when he released his simplified arithmometer (it took him thirty years to refine his machine, patented in 1820, into a simpler and more reliable form). However, they did not gain widespread use until Dorr E. Felt started manufacturing his comptometer (1887) and Burroughs started the commercialization of differently conceived adding machines (1892).

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1. adding machine

   An adding machine is a mechanical or electronic device used for performing mathematical calculations, especially addition. This device is typically equipped with a keyboard and a visual display or paper printout to show the results. They were commonly used in accounting and bookkeeping before the advent of computers.

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1. Adding machine

   An adding machine was a class of mechanical calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. In the United States, the earliest adding machines were usually built to read in dollars and cents. Adding machines were ubiquitous office equipment until they were phased out in favor of calculators in the 1970s and by personal computers beginning in about 1985. The older adding machines were rarely seen in American office settings by the year 2000. Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator in 1642; it was an adding machine that could perform additions and subtractions directly and multiplication and divisions by repetitions. He was followed by Thomas de Colmar who launched the mechanical calculator industry in 1851 when he released his simplified arithmometer. However, they didn't gain widespread use until Dorr E. Felt started manufacturing his comptometer and Burroughs started the commercialization of his adding machine.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ADDING MACHINE in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ADDING MACHINE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adding_Machine
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4. ^ Wikidata
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