adding machine
Example Sentences
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“It’s kind of the Stone Age here,” said Tom, pointing to a dusty hand-cranked adding machine on the counter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
The first adding machine was invented in 1623.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023
Bowman is a language dervish—the pleasure in hearing him describe the adding machine, the source of William S. Burroughs’s family as “the rosary of capitalism,” belongs not to me but to literature.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019
In offices, worker productivity benefited from the typewriter, invented in 1867, the cash register, invented in 1879, and the adding machine, invented in 1885.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Still feeling frustrated because he hadn’t been able to take Ernestine to the speed typing contest, Dad insisted on taking Martha to an adding machine exhibition in New York.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
