SIR – I can well remember comptometers (Letters, March 31). I worked for London Transport in the 1960s in their office at the old Hillingdon Station. There were about 48 women in eight sections and ...

About this time 130 years ago, Dorr Felt, of Chicago, invented the Comptometer. I learned that while looking up something else. A major method of learning interesting things is to look up something ...

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MRS. STAFFORD, 9 Brook Circle, Leesburg, died Wednesday. Born in Louisville, Ky., she moved to Leesburg from there in 1985. She was a retired comptometer operator for a wholesale hardware company. She ...

"The oddest job I ever had was the first job I ever had, other than babysitting, and that was in 1965. It was a summer job and I was hired to be a comptometer operator. A comptometer was a ...

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