A Better Day's Work at a Less Cost of Time, Work, and Worry to the Man at the DeskBurroughs Adding Machine Company, 1910 - 192 pages |
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11 with eleven 15 Split 18-inch carriage added and listed automatically bank bookkeeper Burroughs machine Burroughs method button and pulling calculation CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY cash sales cents CHAPTER Charles Babbage chine Clerk Number columns of keys Cost Keeping Counter Machine credit sales debits and credits depressed Detroit device earnings eleven columns eliminating button envelope error expense footings gestions grand total hand method hand section Idea illustration inches invoice job number Joseph Boyer keyboard keys and 18-inch labor ledger Listing Machines lists and adds mechanical mental multiply Normal machine number and amount pay-roll PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD Practical Sug printed Proof of Posting pulling the handle record Retailer roughs sales by clerks sales sheet sales ticket saving selling price shown in Figure shows SMITH CO Split & Normal Split and Normal tabulated taken tion total button transcribed trial balance William Seward Burroughs
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Page 6 - Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine. — What a satire, by the way, is that machine on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; that turns out formulae like a cornsheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels of them ! I have an immense respect for a man of talents plug
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Page 75 - A readiness in calculation gives a man great advantages over his less experienced neighbor ; and many a man has brought his fish to a bad market from inability to calculate quickly and accurately. To attain the habit of quick calculation without the aid of a slate and pencil, Dr. Alcott recommends that the learner seize on " every circumstance which occurs in his reading, where reckoning is required, and, if possible, stop at once and compute it. Or, if not, let the place be marked, and, at...
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Page 31 - His drawings were on metal plates that would not stretch nor shrink by the fraction of a hair. He worked with hardened tools ground to a point, and when he struck a center or drew a line, he did it under a microscope.
Page 9 - And the father hud grown, in conducting his affairs, sternly accurate in his very emotions. There is something in numerals, in the process of calculation, extremely frosty and petrifying to a man. The faculty of a college always give the first honor of a graduating class to the best mathematician. Very wisely ; he is the man, in most colleges, who delivers the Latin or Greek salutatory on Commencement-day ; he attains the first honor, but the process thereto freezes...
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