DocumentCode
1330453
Title
The adding machine fraternity at St. Louis: creating a center of invention, 1880-1920
Author
Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich
Author_Institution
Div. of Inf. Technol. & Soc., Nat. Museum of American History, Washington, DC, USA
Volume
22
Issue
2
fYear
2000
Firstpage
4
Lastpage
21
Abstract
Between 1880 and 1920, several inventors in St. Louis, Missouri, made pioneering contributions to the development of commercial adding machines. The inventions of Frank S. Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, the brothers William W. and Hubert H. Hopkins, and their associates did much to make mechanical arithmetic commonplace in US business
Keywords
calculating apparatus; digital arithmetic; history; Frank S. Baldwin; Hubert H. Hopkins; St. Louis, MO, USA; William S. Burroughs; William W. Hopkins; adding machine fraternity; business; commercial adding machines; history; invention; inventors; mechanical arithmetic; pioneering contributions; Arithmetic; Business; Cities and towns; Companies; History; Instruments; Manufacturing; Production facilities; Prototypes; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/85.841133
Filename
841133
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