First calculating machine presented to Smithsonian. Washington, D.C., March 31, Vintage Print

Step back in time with this striking reproduction of First calculating machine presented to Smithsonian. Washington, D.C., March 31. Sourced from the United States Library of Congress.

Library of Congress record: Created 1937 March 31 Title from unverified data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at First calculating machine presented to Smithsonian. Washington, D.C., March 31. An old macaroni box filled with an arrangement of wheels, rubber bands, meat skewers and staples which was the forerunner of the modern key-driven, multiple-order calculating machine, was presented to the Smithsonian Institution today. The scarred old box was designed and constructed by Dorr E. Felt, young Chicago mechanic, 52 years ago when he first started in to solve the problem of what is now the modern calculating machine. Mrs. Raymond J. Koch,.

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