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

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The New German Tariff and the American Trade.
...
Typewriters, Calculators and Cash Registers affected.
...
Calculating mechanisms, always separately dutiable
Calculators, even with electric machinery
Parts of typewriters and calculators

September 28, 1925

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Commerce_Reports/ce6R42ve_9cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=electronic+calculators&pg=PA729&printsec=frontcover








------ Original Message ------
From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 01/06/2024 12:45:10
Subject Antedating of "Calculator" (Electronic)

>calculator (OED, 2.c., 1946)
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>1943 _Wisconsin State Journal_ 12 Mar. 6/1 (Newspapers.com)  Other expansion of applications are looked for in power conversion, high-frequency heating, motor control, electronic calculators, etc.
>
>Fred Shapiro
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>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

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