<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Hello <span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">Dave</span>.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">I am very interested in this topic. Recently I attempted to sketch an economic history of this nascent industrial sector, with this exploratory paper written from a European point of view:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41536923/Lindustrie_des_calculatrices_un_leadership_fran%C3%A7ais_suivi_dune_domination_germanique_et_am%C3%A9ricaine_The_Calculator_Industry_in_the_XIXth_century_An_Early_French_Leadership_Swept_Away_by_New_Entrants">https://www.academia.edu/41536923/Lindustrie_des_calculatrices_un_leadership_fran%C3%A7ais_suivi_dune_domination_germanique_et_am%C3%A9ricaine_The_Calculator_Industry_in_the_XIXth_century_An_Early_French_Leadership_Swept_Away_by_New_Entrants</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">I would be glad to discuss the matter with you and other connoisseurs within SIGCIS. Certainly de Colmar’s Arithmometre made its way across the Atlantic, both as direct exports from the Paris workshop or as later clones (Burckhardt, Saxonia through Carl Reuter, etc.). That it "inspired some emulation or other ideas" is obvious, if only with the very name of Felt's "Comptometer". Toward 1900, some 15 companies in Europe were making and marketing Arithmometre clones, so it would be surprising not to find similar ventures in America, along with makers of more modern designs.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Happy Holidays & New Year to all!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">Regards, <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">Pierre<br><br>Pierre Mounier-Kuhn<br>CNRS, Sorbonne Université & CentraleSupélec</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn<br>https://laboutique.edpsciences.fr/produit/1255/9782759827053/histoire-illustree-de-l-informatique<br>http://www.rdv-histoire.com/mounier-kuhn-pierre-eric</span></p></div></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Foster, David via Members" <members@lists.sigcis.org><br><b>À: </b>"members" <members@lists.sigcis.org><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Vendredi 23 Décembre 2022 18:48:52<br><b>Objet: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] Seeking Information on Adding Machines, Mechanical Calculators, etc. Designed and Used in the U.S. Prior to 1877<br></div><div><br><style><!--
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have the opportunity to do a research paper for a Spring term historiography course and I’d like to depart from the themes of the assigned readings and return to research in the realm of computing history. Given the chronological constraint
of 1877 as the upper year, I can get just a bit into the beginning timeframe of James Cortada’s
<i>Before the Computer</i> and had been thinking that devices like de Colmar’s Arithmometre (1820) must have made their way across the Atlantic and inspired some emulation or other ideas. The good people at the reference section of the LOC have given me some
useful background and I’ve rec’d some valuable tips on patent search and organization methodologies. I have just started to search the patent history (calculators, adding machines, etc.), but any advice or insights on 19<sup>th</sup> century American “computing”
from the group are greatly appreciated.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy Holidays & New Year!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black">Regards, Dave</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:black">Dave Foster</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black">davidfos@ttu.edu</span></p>
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