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ADDING MACHINE / CALCULATOR

Development:
1)
  February 14, 1857, p. 111, col. 1-2
news item, calculator (“arithmometer”)

Adders:
1)  September 26, 1863, p. 622, col. 3
ad, Fowler Adding Machine (1st ad)

2)  February 13, 1869, p. 107, col. 4
news item, Fowler Adding Machine

3)  February 13, 1869, p. 112, col. 4
illustrated ad, Webb’s Adding Machine

4)  February 27, 1869, p. 135, col. 3
news item, Webb’s Adding Machine

5)  June 6, 1891, p. S3, col. 1
illustrated ad, adder, Webb Adder

6)  January 8, 1876, p. 35, col. 3
illustrated ad, “Rapid Addition” adder

Keyboard Adding Machines:
1)  July 20, 1895, p. 693, col. 2-3
illustrated ad, adding machine, Comptometer

2)  October 12, 1907, p. 1503, col. 2
illustrated ad, adding machine, Comptometer

3)  March 21, 1908, p. 27, col. 2
illustrated ad, Universal Adding Machine

4)  March 20, 1909, p. 34, col. 3-4
illustrated ad, Burroughs Adding Machine

5)  June 5, 1909, p. 2, col. 2
illustrated ad, Remington typewriter/adding machine

Future of Computing:

1)  June 7, 1873, p. 486, col. 4 & p. 487, col. 1
article, on Charles Babbage

 


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TYPEWRITER

Invention:
1)  January 15, 1876, p. S58, col. 1-2
illustrated article, “Review of Recent Inventions: 
Type-Writer”

2)  June 28, 1873, p. 551, col. 2
news item

3)  August 14, 1875, p. 666, col. 3
ad

Finding Financial Success:
1)  March 18, 1876, p. 236, col. 2
illustrated ad, typewriter (Locke, Yost, & Bates)

2)  December 6, 1890, p. 957, col. 3-4
illustrated ad, National Type Writer

3)  December 2, 1905, p. 1757, col. 2-3
illustrated ad, Oliver typewriter

Women’s Work:
1)  September 26, 1891, p. S739, col. 3
illustrated ad, women sales agents

2)  October 12, 1907, p. 1505, col. 1
verse, “The Typewriter Girl”

3)  December 30, 1911, p. 25, col. 3
“Coalheaver vs. Typewriter”

Remington:
1)  July 17, 1886, p. 464, col. 3-4
illustrated ad, Remington Standard typewriter

2)  September 30, 1899, p. 985, col. 1-4
full-page illustrated ad, Remington typewriter

3)  December 8, 1900, p. 1195, col. 1-4
half-page illustrated ad, Remington typewriter

4)  March 4, 1905, p. 317, col. 1-4
full-page illustrated ad, Remington typewriter

Rival Companies:
1)  November 19, 1887, p. 846, col. 3-4
Caligraph typewriter

2)  May 24, 1890, p. S3, col. 4
illustrated ad, Caligraph typewriter

3)  November 19, 1887, p. 846, col. 3-4
Hall typewriter (index machine)

4)  November 3, 1888, p. 840, col. 1
illustrated ad, Hammond typewriter

5)  November 3, 1888, p. 840, col. 2
illustrated ad, World typewriter

6)  November 3, 1888, p. 840, col. 3
illustrated ad, Crandall typewriter

7)  November 3, 1888, p. 840, col. 3-4
illustrated ad, Remington typewriter

8November 15, 1890, p. S3, col. 1-2
illustrated ad, Smith Premium Typewriter

9)  November 15, 1890, p. S3, col. 1-2
illustrated ad, Needham Type-Writing Cabinet and Office Desk Combined

10)  February 22, 1896, p. 188, col. 1-2
illustrated ad, Daugherty Visible typewriter

Expansion and Consolidation:
1)  January 16, 1897, p. 71, col. 2-3
illustrated ad, Daugherty typewriter 

2)  February 16, 1901, p. 175, col. 2
illustration, “The American Type-Writer in Japan”

3)  April 13, 1912, p. 26, col. 2-3
ad, announces consolidation of sales organizations of Remington, Smith Premier, and Monarch typewriter

 


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DICTATION MACHINE

1)  March 30, 1878, p. 249, col. 4 & p. 250, col. 1
illustrated article, “The Phonograph"

2)  March 30, 1878, p. 256
illustration for illustrated article, "The Phonograph"

3)  July 17, 1886, pp. 458-459
illustrated article, “The Graphophone”

4)  June 9, 1888, p. 415
illustrated article, “The Phonograph”

5)  June 9, 1888, p. 416
illustration for illustrated article, "The Phonograph"

6)  July 1, 1905, pp. 944-945
illustrated article, “Electricity at Home and in Business”

7)  November 18, 1911, p. 35, col. 2-3
illustrated ad, Edison Factories

 


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COPIER

1)  June 26, 1880, p. 414, col. 2
ad, Hektograph copier

2)  February 28, 1880, p. 142, col. 3-4
ad, Hektograph copier 

3)  January 7, 1893, p. 24, col. 3
Illustrated ad, Simplex Printer

4)  June 20, 1885, p. 398, col. 1
ad, Cyclostyle copying process

5)  October 28, 1905, p. 1570, col. 1
illustrated ad, Rotary Mimeograph

 


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SHORTHAND TYPEWRITER

1)  December 15, 1883, p. 807, col. 2
illustrated ad, Stenograph

2)  October 1, 1892, p. 951, col. 3
illustrated ad, Anderson Shorthand Typewriter

 


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FAX MACHINES

1)  August 18, 1888, p. 607, col. 3
news item, Elisha Gray invents the telautograph

2)  July 1, 1905, pp. 944-945
illustrated article, telautograph and telegraphone

3)  July 1, 1905, p. 957, col. 1
continuation of illustrated article,
telautograph and telegraphone

 


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KEYPUNCH TABULATING MACHINE
1)  January 11, 1890, p. 26, col. 4
article, Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine & census

2)  August 19, 1899, p. 821, col. 1-3
illustrated article, “Plans for the Twelfth Census”

 


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ANSWERING MACHINES

1)  July 1, 1905, pp. 944-945
illustrated article, telautograph and telegraphone

2)  July 1, 1905, p. 957, col. 1
continuation of illustrated article,
telautograph and telegraphone

 

 
 

     
 

 
     
 

 
     
 

 

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