[Ads-l] Antedating of "Calculator" (Electronic Device)

[Shapiro, Fred]

calculator (OED, 2.c., 1946)


1938 Howard Aiken _Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine_ in _Makin' Numbers_ (I. Bernard Cohen & Gregory W. Welch ed. 1999) 26  At present the automatic calculator is visualized as a switchboard on which are mounted various pieces of calculating machine apparatus.


Fred Shapiro

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