1903 Adix Adding Machine. Original model.

The original Adix (1903) has a heavy base plate and was sold in a grained leather brown wooden box (15×8x2 cm). The company’s name is written in Gothic script and bears the words “Mannheim”. The calculator consists of 122 parts and for the first time in a computing machine uses parts made of aluminum. A feature of this model of the Adix is the asymmetrically arranged counter.1

 

1 http://www.rechenwerkzeug.de/adixevol.htm[Die Adix] (↑)


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