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  • 2015 July 21. **~1952 O.J. Adder by Holman Engineering works was added to the website. A rare surviving example of this pounds, shillings and pence sterling adding machine with clock dial read out in units of 10 pounds.
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  • 2015 July 21. **~1952 O.J. Adder by Holman Engineering works was added to the website. A rare surviving example of this pounds, shillings and pence sterling adding machine with clock dial read out in units of 10 pounds.
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2014 December 4. Facit LX pinwheel calculator, serial 105478, 1950, the dead ringer of the Facit calculator loaned to the site author when he was a small boy, was added to the website.

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2014 December 4. Facit LX pinwheel calculator, serial 105478, 1950, the dead ringer of the Facit calculator loaned to the site author when he was a small boy, was added to the website.

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  • 2014 July. Hewlett Packard HP-65 programmable calculator, 1973 was added to the site to complete the set of these calculators marking “the vanishing point” for mechanical calculators. With the arrival of this magnetic card programmable pocket calculator with its array of scientific functions, all that had come before was gaslight!
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  • 2014 April 12. Notes section added in which additional information and patent pages in this site are listed.
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  • 2014 May 27. The Adder, 1908 was added to the collection, and in honour of this and recent arrival also of the earlier Centigraph and Spalding machines a new section of the text “Early keyboard adding machines” was created.
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  • 2014 May 5. **Three Ancient Roman dice added to the collection with some notes on their role in the history of mathematics.
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  • 2014 May 5. **Three Ancient Roman dice added to the collection with some notes on their role in the history of mathematics.
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  • 2014 April 15. Additions to the e-Library (including suggestions from Walter Szrek)
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  • 2014 April 14. Change of domain to things-that-count.net. Was forced by some security concerns to change the site domain from http://things-that-count.com to http://things-that-count.net. The .com address will remain active with a redirection page. Book and cover revised to accommodate new domain.
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  • 2014 April 14. Change of domain to http://things-that-count.net. Was forced by some security concerns to change the site domain from http://things-that-count.com to http://things-that-count.net. The .com address will remain active with a redirection page. Book and cover revised to accommodate new domain.
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  • 2014 April 14. Change of domain to things-that-count.net. Was forced by some security concerns to change the site domain from http://things-that-count.com to http://things-that-count.net. The .com address will remain active with a redirection page. Book and cover revised to accommodate new domain.
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  • 2014 April 14. Was forced by some security concerns to change the site domain from http://things-that-count.com to http://things-that-count.net. The .com address will remain active with a redirection page.
  • 2014 April 12. An intervention on the debate found sporadically across the internet on whether Pascal or Schickard should be taken to be the “inventor of the adding machine/calculator”. See Schickard versus Pascal - an empty debate??. This draws in part on the capacity to use replicas of the Pascaline and the Schickard
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  • 2014 April 15. Additions to the e-Library
  • 2014 April 14. Change of domain. Was forced by some security concerns to change the site domain from http://things-that-count.com to http://things-that-count.net. The .com address will remain active with a redirection page.
  • 2014 April 12. Schickard vs Pascal. An intervention on the debate found sporadically across the internet on whether Pascal or Schickard should be taken to be the “inventor of the adding machine/calculator”. See Schickard versus Pascal - an empty debate??. This draws in part on the capacity to use replicas of the Pascaline and Schickard’s Calculating Clock
  • 2014 April 12. Notes Added “Notes” section in which additional information and patent pages in this site are listed.
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(:title New on Things that Count:)

At the request of readers I have added this section to provide news of major additions to the site.

  • 2014 April 14. Was forced by some security concerns to change the site domain from http://things-that-count.com to http://things-that-count.net. The .com address will remain active with a redirection page.
  • 2014 April 12. An intervention on the debate found sporadically across the internet on whether Pascal or Schickard should be taken to be the “inventor of the adding machine/calculator”. See Schickard versus Pascal - an empty debate??. This draws in part on the capacity to use replicas of the Pascaline and the Schickard


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