adding machines
Desk arithmetic devices
Adding machines are mechanical or electronic devices designed for arithmetic calculations, particularly addition.
Before electronic calculators became ubiquitous in the 1970s, adding machines were standard office equipment, typically featuring a keyboard for entering numbers and a paper tape that printed results.
The term now sounds dated, though some receipt-printing calculators still resemble the original design.
Addition's result
- totalComplete sum
- digitSingle numeric character
- subtractionRemoving quantities mathematically
- multiplicationProduct-finding operation
division · decimal · calculation · tally · running total · subtotal · carry · column
Toothed rotating machine parts
- leversForce-multiplying pivot bars
- crankRotary operating handle
- keysLock-operating instruments
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
register · counter · mechanism · ink ribbon · paper tape · sprocket · tabulator · hand-crank
Financial record book
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- invoicingIssuing payment requests
- auditingExamining records for accuracy
- accountsRecords of transactions
balance · payroll · receipts · tallying · reconciliation · clerks · office · commercial
Old valued collectible
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- retroEvoking recent past
- classicOf lasting excellence
relic · restoration · artifact · museum · obsolete · patina · desktop · twentieth-century
sum
Addition's result
- totalComplete sum
- digitSingle numeric character
- subtractionRemoving quantities mathematically
multiplication · division · decimal · calculation · tally · running total · subtotal · carry · column · figures
gears
Toothed rotating machine parts
carriage · register · counter · mechanism · ink ribbon · paper tape · sprocket · tabulator · hand-crank · Burroughs
ledger
Financial record book
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- invoicingIssuing payment requests
- auditingExamining records for accuracy
accounts · balance · payroll · receipts · tallying · reconciliation · clerks · office · commercial · business
antique
Old valued collectible
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- retroEvoking recent past
classic · relic · restoration · artifact · museum · obsolete · patina · desktop · twentieth-century · clerks
- vintage collectiblestube radios, vintage signs, cash registers, vintage jewelry, gramophone
- computerscomputer, computers, desktop, desktops, laptop
- antiquesantiques, antique furniture, antique, antique coins, Greek vases
adding machinessupercomputers
Extremely powerful computing machines
quantum computers · computers · mainframes · digital computers · artificial intelligence
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