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Comptometer

British  
/ kɒmpˈtɒmɪtə /

noun

  1. a high-speed calculating machine: superseded by electronic calculators

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Comptometer was also prodded by the SEC to give a fuller explanation.

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In eight trading days TelAutograph zipped from 9�to a high of 24�, and Comptometer soared from 15�to 30.

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Mrs. Lenz had worked as a charwoman until Louise, the younger, had finished and got a job operating a Comptometer.

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Other bookkeeping machines were the Comptometer, the Add-Index portable electric adding listing machine, Burroughs automatic bookkeeping machine, Monroe calculators and check writers, Langford sales auditors.

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TelAutograph and Comptometer Corp., last week set off a speculative binge that resulted in some of the wildest trading the New York Stock Exchange has seen since 1929.

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