Felt & Tarrant Comptometer, 1951
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Mechanical adding machines like this Comptometer were indispensable--and almost indestructible--office equipment until the computer era. Dorr Felt's 1884 invention of a key-driven mechanical adding machine had become big business by the 1950s, when this Comptometer was made. This particular Comptometer was used in the accounting department of an eyewear manufacturing company from 1951-1967, when its operator retired.
Mechanical adding machines like this Comptometer were indispensable--and almost indestructible--office equipment until the computer era. Dorr Felt's 1884 invention of a key-driven mechanical adding machine had become big business by the 1950s, when this Comptometer was made. This particular Comptometer was used in the accounting department of an eyewear manufacturing company from 1951-1967, when its operator retired.
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Date Made
1951
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
99.43.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Robert LaFleche
Material
Metal
Plastic
Dimensions
Height: 5.25 in
Width: 9.25 in
Length: 14.75 in
Inscriptions
top: FELT & TARRANT / MANUFACTURING CO. CHICAGO, USA front: COMPTOMETER
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