Illustrations

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Frontispiece, “Stone Age Calculating”

One of the Pascal Machines 10

Photo of Blaise Pascal 11

Parmelee Patent Drawings 16

Hill Patent Drawings 23

Chapin Patent Drawings 28

From the Stark Patent Drawings 32

From the Robjohn Patent Drawings 36

From Drawings of Bouchet Patent 314,561 40

Drawings of Spalding Patent No. 293,809 46

“Macaroni Box” Model 53

Photo of Dorr E. Felt 55

The First “Comptometer” 57

From Drawings of Felt Patent No. 371,496 58

Bill for First Manufacturing Tools of the Comptometer 68

Early Comptometer 69

Letter from Geo. W. Martin 71

Testimonial 72

Testimonial 73

Letters from Elliott and Rosecrans 74

From Drawings of Barbour Patent No. 133,188 78

From Drawings of Baldwin Patent No. 159,244 83

Baldwin Machine 83

From Drawings of Pottin Patent No. 312,014 88

From Drawings of Burroughs Patent No. 388,118 94

Photo of Wm. S. Burroughs 95

Drawings of Ludlum Patent No. 384,373 104

From Drawings of Felt Patent No. 405,024 112

Testimonial 117

Felt Recording and Listing Machine 118

From Drawings of Felt Patent No. 465,255 121

Felt Tabulator 126

One of the Early “Comptographs” 130

Photo of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz 132

Leibnitz Calculator 133

From Drawings of Burroughs’ Patents Nos. 504,963 and 505,078 136

Burroughs’ Recorder 137

From the February 1908 Issue of Office Appliances Magazine 142

The High-Speed Calculator 148

Two Pages from Wales Adding Machine Co. Booklet 165

Moon-Hopkins Billing and Bookkeeping Machine 176

Napier’s Bones 179

From Drawings of Barbour Patent No. 130,404 180

Photo of John Napier 181

From Drawings of Bollee Patent No. 556,720 186

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