This Month In the History of Information Technologies

This Month In the History of Information Technologies

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Calculating Machines

Calculating Machines

February 5, 2023

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Today in 1850, the first US patent (US No. 7,074) for a push-key operated adding machine is issued to Dubois D. Parmelee of New Paltz, New York.

In 1886, William Burroughs founded the American Arithmometer Company to commercialize his “adding machine” that “could do the work of two or three active clerks,” according to The Bankers’ Magazine in 1894.

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