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 ...

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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 ...

McLear, Frances Eileen, 103, of Pleasanton. Comptometer Operator for Standard Oil for 20 yrs. Service on Monday, May 12, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. at 26320 Mission Blvd. Hayward, CA. Committal Service at ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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This is a summary of an interview with: Mrs Edith Berry recorded on the 19th September 2005. My name is Mrs Edith Berry (nee. Warburton). I was born on the 11th February 1921, in Higher Openshaw, ...