About this time 130 years ago, Dorr Felt, of Chicago, invented the Comptometer. I learned that while looking up something else. A major method of learning interesting things is to look up something ...

IN acceding to the editor's request to contribute an article to NATURE upon this instrument, I should like at the outset to express the feeling of curiosity with which any one, familiar with the many ...

"The oddest job I ever had was the first job I ever had, other than babysitting, and that was in 1965. It was a summer job and I was hired to be a comptometer operator. A comptometer was a ...

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MRS. STAFFORD, 9 Brook Circle, Leesburg, died Wednesday. Born in Louisville, Ky., she moved to Leesburg from there in 1985. She was a retired comptometer operator for a wholesale hardware company. She ...

Stories categorised in 'Working Through War'. These stories may contain references to other themes. I worked in the office at Williamsons in Lancaster as a Comptometer operator, it was a very clever..

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During the war, when i was about 30, I was in a reserved occupation. I was called up but didn't have to go because my job was classed as important. I worked in the office at Williamsons in Lancaster ...