Title :
The adding machine fraternity at St. Louis: creating a center of invention, 1880-1920
Author :
Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich
Author_Institution :
Div. of Inf. Technol. & Soc., Nat. Museum of American History, Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
Between 1880 and 1920, several inventors in St. Louis, Missouri, made pioneering contributions to the development of commercial adding machines. The inventions of Frank S. Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, the brothers William W. and Hubert H. Hopkins, and their associates did much to make mechanical arithmetic commonplace in US business
Keywords :
calculating apparatus; digital arithmetic; history; Frank S. Baldwin; Hubert H. Hopkins; St. Louis, MO, USA; William S. Burroughs; William W. Hopkins; adding machine fraternity; business; commercial adding machines; history; invention; inventors; mechanical arithmetic; pioneering contributions; Arithmetic; Business; Cities and towns; Companies; History; Instruments; Manufacturing; Production facilities; Prototypes; Writing;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
