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Anecdote: Before Torchi and Schwilgué, There Was White (2016)

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This brief note pushes further back the invention of key-driven calculating machines. Until recently, it was thought that the first such machine was Du Bois D. Parmelee's in 1850. Then, notice was made of Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué's machine (1844), then of Luigi Torchi's (1834), and now of James White's (1822).

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Authors & Contributors
Roegel, Denis
Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich
David McQuillan
Brian Coghlan
Jannamorelli, Bruno
Davies, Stephen M.
Concepts
Calculating machines
History of Computing
Mathematics
Computers and computing
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Computer architecture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Renaissance
21st century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
United States
England
Scotland
Sweden
Institutions
AB Original-Odhner
United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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