Vintage Comptometer is a photograph by Kaye Menner which was uploaded on June 15th, 2013.
Vintage Comptometer
This image is one of my photographs of a very old, worn and well used comptometer dating back to around the 1930's. I very much enjoy viewing these... more
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Vintage Comptometer
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Kaye Menner
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This image is one of my photographs of a very old, worn and well used comptometer dating back to around the 1930's. I very much enjoy viewing these now outdated forms of adding machines or vintage calculators.
I found this interesting piece amongst many other relics of a similar kind whilst visiting a Folk Museum in Bowraville, New South Wales, Australia.
The comptometer was the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator, patented in the USA by Dorr E. Felt in 1887.
[Wikipedia]
A key-driven calculator is extremely fast because each key adds or subtracts its value to the accumulator as soon as it is pressed and a skilled operator can enter all of the digits of a number simultaneously, using as many fingers as required, making them sometimes faster to use than electronic calculators. Consequently, in specialized applications, comptometers remained in use in limited numbers into the early 1990s, but with the exception of museum pieces, they have all now been superseded by electronic calculators and computers.
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Kaye Menner
Thank you so much for your kind comment, Sandra and for featuring my image in Memories and Nostalgia :)
Sandra Pena de Ortiz
Excellently done! Thank you for your submission! Congratulations for your feature in Memories and Nostalgia!
Kaye Menner
Thanks again, Xueling for your kind feedback. I hate to think what will be around in say 50 years from now!
Xueling Zou
A wonderful capture! Thanks for sharing it, I've forgot about how fast technology has been improved! Love your image :)!