A collection of things that count

The objects below comprise “Collection Calculant” - a collection of “things that count”. (Click on photos to enlarge; click on text for fuller item description.)

For a more detailed collection objects list click here. For their story in context of a history of calculation click here.

Objects

1. Beginnings

Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Neo Sumerian receipt for ghee & cheese 2100-2000 BC	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Old Babylonian tag receipt for sheep carcases 1934-1924 BC	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Abacus Chinese	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Dice Ancient Rome 000-300	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Astragalus Ancient Rome 100-200
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. French jeton ~1480	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Calculi Ordinum Belgii 1577	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Napier’s Bones replica ’1617’	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Schickard replica ’1623’	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Pascaline exemplar ’~1650’	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Queen of Poland Pascaline replica ’~1650’
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Henrion Traicté de Logarithms 1626	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Schott Organum Mathematicum 1668	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Morland New arithmetic instruments 1672	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Callet Tables Portatives 1783	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Ropp Commercial Calculator 1892	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.

2. Conversion and Reckoner Devices

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Holm’s
Tobacco Box
for calculating
ship’s speed
Pietr Holms
1793

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Convertiseur
Chaix
1790-1810

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Circular
interest
reckoner
L. Brooks
1849

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Cylindrical
multiplication
reckoner
J. B. Morill
1856

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3. Sectors

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Gunnery Sector
Butterfield
1675-1715

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Arch. Sector
Doublett
1830

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Dividers
English
~1750 & ~1800

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Instruments
Jefferys
1750-1800

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Instruments
Henri Morin
1880

4. Slide Rules

Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. 3 Log rulers design Leupold 1626-1676	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Design Gunter scale 1626	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Gunter rule 1831-1843	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Everard pattern gauger’s slide rule Edward Roberts 1759-69	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Alcohol strength slide rule Joseph Long 1821-84
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Palmer’s Computing Scale & Fuller’s Time Telegraph 1847	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Charpentier Calculimètre circular slide rule 1881	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Engineer’s slide rule Tavernier-Gravet 1893-8	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Thacher’s Calculating Instrument Keuffel and Esser 1911	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Bloch Schnellkalkulator cutting speed nomograph ~1924	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Prof Fuller’s Cylindrical Slide Rule Model 2 1926	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Side rule Keuffel and Esser 1928	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Supremathic Circular slide rule ~1935	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Der Zeitermittler cutting speed nomograph 1947
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Lawrence cutting speed calculator 1948	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Fowler Jubilee Magnum circular slide rule 1948	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Otis King Rotary Slide Rule Type L C 1960	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Russian Pocket Slide Rule 1960s	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Novo Duplex slide rule Faber Castell 1967

5. Simple adder/subtractors

Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Pascaline replica (gears & lever carry) ’~1652’	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Webb Patent Adder (geared dials) C. H. Webb 1869	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Webb Patent Adder (geared dials) C. H. Webb 1889	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Stephenson (geared dials) Adder 1890-1900	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Locke (sliders) Clarence E. Locke 1905-11
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Adall (concentric disc) Adall Company 1910	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Seidell & Naumann (chain) ~1910	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Comptator (rack) Schubert & Salzer 1910-20s	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Calcumeter (geared dials) James Walsh ~1912	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Golden Gem (chain) Automatic Adding Machine Co 1915
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Addiator (sliders) Addiator Gesellschaft 1920	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Addo Mod 2 (rack) AB Addo 1920	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Conto Mod C (rotating knobs & gears) Carl Landolt 1922	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Scribola (rack printing) Ruthard & Co. 1922	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Quixsum (rotating dials) Precision Adding Machine Co. 1930
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Add-O-Matic (knobbed sliders) Allied Manuf. Co. 1937	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Lightening Adder (gears) 1946	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. O.J. Adder (gears) Holman Engineering 1952	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. SEE Educational (gears) Select. Educ. Equipment Co. 1968	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.

6. Early keyboard operated adders

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Spalding
(lever keyboard)
Cyrus G. Spalding,
Boston
1884

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Centigraph
(lever keyboard)
American Adding
Machine Co.
1891

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Adix
(lever keyboard)
Adix Co. Mannheim
1903

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The Adder
(lever keyboard)
Arthur James Postans
~1908

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Kuli
(lever keyboard)
Adix Co. Mannheim
~1909

7. Stepped-drum Arithmometers

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Thomas
de Colmar
Arithmometer
1884

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TIM
’Time is Money’
Ludwig
Spitz & Co
1909

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Bunzel-Denton
Prototype
Arithmometer
~1913

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MADAS Maxima
(auto division)
Arithmometer
~1917

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8. Direct Multiplying & Proportional Rack Calculators

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Schickard
replica
(gear adding
& Napier rods
system)
’1623’

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Bamberger
Omega
(sliders adding
& Napier rods
system)
1904

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Millionaire
Calculating Machine
(rack & rigid
multiplication
table)
1912

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Mercedes-Euklid
Mod 29
(Prop. rack,
auto.division)
1923

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Mercedes-Euklid
Mod 29
Demo.
Machine
1923

9. Pinwheel Calculators

Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Brunsviga- Schuster Ohdner B ~1896	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Facit Mod C 1945	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Facit Mod LX 1950	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Original Ohdner Mod 39 1951	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Walther WSR-160 ~1957	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Demo. Walther WSR-160 ~1957	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.

10. Comptometers

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‘Woodie’
Comptometer
Felt and Tarrant
1896

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Oil Bottle
Comptometer
Felt and Tarrant
1907

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Bell Sumlock
Comptometer
Bell Punch P/Ltd
1950s

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Bell Punch
Demo.
Components from
~1955

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11. Curta and Alpina (step drum miniaturised calculators)

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Curta
Type 1
very early
pin sliders
1947

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Curta
Type 1
orig Box
1967

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Curta
Type 2
Leather carrying
case
1963

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Alpina
step-drum
& Case
1961

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12. From electromechanical to electronic calculation

Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Hertstark badged (electric step drum) Badenia Mod TE 13 Duplex 1929	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. MADAS (electric step drum) Model 20BTG 1950s-60s	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Hewlett Packard HP-35 Scientific Pocket Calculator July 1972	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Hewlett Packard HP-45 Scientific Pocket Calculator December 1973	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Hewlett Packard HP-65 Scientific Pocket Calculator August 1973	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.

Ephemerae

Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Pascaline Mechanism Encyclopaedia Diderot & D’Alembert 1759	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Napier’s Rods Encyclopaedia Britannica 1797	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Scheutz’s Difference Engine Illust. Lond. News 1855	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Léon Bollée’s Calculating Machine Manuf. & Build. 1890	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Lightening Calculator No 2. 1895
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. 3 Calculating Machines Wood Print Bib. Inst. Leipzig 1901	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. 5 Calculating Machines Wood Print Bib. Inst. Leipzig 1901	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. ”Austria” Calculating Machine Hertztark Co. 1913	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Comptometer Manual Felt & Tarrant 1921	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.
Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. Monroe ”Marching Figures” Advertisement 1937	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. HP-35 Calculator Advertisement Scientific American 1973	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. HP-45 Calculator Advertisement Scientific American 1973	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting. ”A Calculator Chronicle” 300 Years of Counting IBM Exhibition 1990	Mini: PHP-GD image library not found. Exiting.

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