Just to give a bit of context; The newspaper ad shown implies this was priced at one (US?) Dollar around 1950, and a quick Google suggests that's about $12,50 in 2023 dollars. At that price, todays equivalent toy might be a board game or a couple of fad items...Or even a franchise-branded calculator! 🙃 It's nice to see they promoted the utility of these too, though. Just imagine somebody today coming up with a childrens toy that can also provide useful functionality to their parent(s)! 😁
I am lucky enough to own a cutter mark to mechanical calculator, which is an absolutely beautiful piece of mechanical engineering using it. You can feel the mechanism doing all sorts of wonderful things
5:44: “the simplest adding machine that isn’t a slide-rule or an abacus” - Slide Rules do not add. They multiply, divide, do ratios, logarithms and square and cube roots, but do not add or subtract. There is an algorithm for doing square-roots on an abacus. It’s an adaptation of the “Long Division” method that used to be taught in High Schools.
I can be really pedantic right now about how the "or" fixes this. "The simplest adding machine that isnt an abacus or a ham sandwitch" could also be true
My dad brought home something like this except the one he bought home was a lot more heavy duty and would I believe add to a million it was for blood cell counts it was black it had a crank on the side to zero all the numbers out but that this was crazy
Hi I make 3d animated explainer videos. Would you please let me have the inside photos of this machine? I would like to replicate to 3D model and make an animated video about this. Thank you.
Mechanical calculators are always fascinating marvels, from this little guy up to the fire control computers on naval ships.
Just to give a bit of context; The newspaper ad shown implies this was priced at one (US?) Dollar around 1950, and a quick Google suggests that's about $12,50 in 2023 dollars. At that price, todays equivalent toy might be a board game or a couple of fad items...Or even a franchise-branded calculator! 🙃
It's nice to see they promoted the utility of these too, though. Just imagine somebody today coming up with a childrens toy that can also provide useful functionality to their parent(s)! 😁
I played with one of these as a child, not because I was a child in the 1950's, but because there was a very old one at my grandmother's house.
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I am lucky enough to own a cutter mark to mechanical calculator, which is an absolutely beautiful piece of mechanical engineering using it. You can feel the mechanism doing all sorts of wonderful things
5:44: “the simplest adding machine that isn’t a slide-rule or an abacus” - Slide Rules do not add. They multiply, divide, do ratios, logarithms and square and cube roots, but do not add or subtract.
There is an algorithm for doing square-roots on an abacus. It’s an adaptation of the “Long Division” method that used to be taught in High Schools.
I can be really pedantic right now about how the "or" fixes this. "The simplest adding machine that isnt an abacus or a ham sandwitch" could also be true
you could add with a slide rule if it has a linear scale instead of logarithmic (effectively that's just 2 rulers i suppose)
Blue on red with white, its my top 5 possession.
The first? 1920's Adding Machine
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That's fantastic.
My dad brought home something like this except the one he bought home was a lot more heavy duty and would I believe add to a million it was for blood cell counts it was black it had a crank on the side to zero all the numbers out but that this was crazy
What's the intro song? I've heard it before but I don't know it's name
"Promenade" from "Pictures at an Exhibition," by Modest Mussorgsky, arranged by Maurice Ravel
What song is the intro, I swear I've heard it a hundred times but cant place it
Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky
@@TomFarrell-p9z Fantastic Thank you!
Hi I make 3d animated explainer videos. Would you please let me have the inside photos of this machine? I would like to replicate to 3D model and make an animated video about this. Thank you.