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Comptometer

/ 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 a high-speed calculating machine: superseded by electronic calculators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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As a writer for the Chicago Daily News put it in 1935: “Most tap-dancers break the arches of their feet in an attempt to get applause, but not Bill Robinson. His steps are as delicate as a cat’s, as precise as a comptometer, yet never mechanical or vulgarly brilliant.”

His mother worked initially for a Los Angeles dairy farm but later ran a “comptometer,” an early key-driven mechanical calculator, for an industrial company.

The company has been known for its BB guns for more than 125 years, but golf balls were part of its catalogue when it was owned by Victor Comptometer Corp.

Recent takeovers have included those by Chicago's Victor Comptometer of the company that makes Daisy BB guns, by Cleveland's "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. of Rawlings Sporting Goods, by Ling-Temco-Vought of Wilson Sporting Goods, and by General Mills of game-making Parker Bros.

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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