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[CALCULATING MACHINES]. (1) Machine à calculer. Roule sur billes. Metal and wood slide adder, with pasteboard tag attached, in faux-leather cardboard case. [Liège, 1929]. Lacking stylus. (2) Les machines à calculer Business ... Modèles 1929. [Liège: Business, 1929.] (3) Vous aussi, vous pouvez savoir instantanément, sans calculs, le total d'un devis, d'une facture... [Liège: Business, 1929.] (4) Ceci vous intéressera peut-être ... ! [Liège: Business, 1929.] (5) Typed letter from the director of Business House, dated January 10, 1929, with cover addressed to M. Jacques Huilliard in Paris.
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[CALCULATING MACHINES]. (1) Machine à calculer. Roule sur billes. Metal and wood slide adder, with pasteboard tag attached, in faux-leather cardboard case. [Liège, 1929]. Lacking stylus. (2) Les machines à calculer Business ... Modèles 1929. [Liège: Business, 1929.] (3) Vous aussi, vous pouvez savoir instantanément, sans calculs, le total d'un devis, d'une facture... [Liège: Business, 1929.] (4) Ceci vous intéressera peut-être ... ! [Liège: Business, 1929.] (5) Typed letter from the director of Business House, dated January 10, 1929, with cover addressed to M. Jacques Huilliard in Paris.
A "troncet" or slide adder manufactured by the French firm Business. The slide adder was a cheap and easy-to-use pocket calculating device that enjoyed wide popularity until the introduction of electronic pocket calculators in the 1970s. Invented in 1888 by J. L. Troncet (whose name is often used to refer to the device), the slide adder consisted of a vertically arranged set of sliding digits encased in a cardboard or metal frame and operated with a stylus. OOC 246.
[With:] TASCO. (1) "The streamlined vest pocket adding machine."Metal slide adder, in cardboard case. Lacking stylus. N.p, n.d. [ca. 1920s-1930s]. (2) "Instructions." A "troncet" or slide adder manufactured by Tasco, and apparently also marketed by Cray (the two names appear on opposite sides of the adder's cardboard case). OOC 380.
A "troncet" or slide adder manufactured by the French firm Business. The slide adder was a cheap and easy-to-use pocket calculating device that enjoyed wide popularity until the introduction of electronic pocket calculators in the 1970s. Invented in 1888 by J. L. Troncet (whose name is often used to refer to the device), the slide adder consisted of a vertically arranged set of sliding digits encased in a cardboard or metal frame and operated with a stylus. OOC 246.
[With:] TASCO. (1) "The streamlined vest pocket adding machine."Metal slide adder, in cardboard case. Lacking stylus. N.p, n.d. [ca. 1920s-1930s]. (2) "Instructions." A "troncet" or slide adder manufactured by Tasco, and apparently also marketed by Cray (the two names appear on opposite sides of the adder's cardboard case). OOC 380.
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