Word: abacus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S People researcher-and TIME'S readers-an abacus, a telescope and a subscription to the Army, Navy, Air Force Journal. Correct star-count...
...Abacus. The Tokyo Exchange's day-to-day operation would bug many a Wall Streeter's eyes. Every day some 1,500 traders pack into a trading area only 75 feet square. On busy days, few can find room to move; they transmit their buying & selling signals by waving their bamboo fans. Their method of recording transactions is painfully cumbersome. One of the biggest brokerage houses has only one battered Remington Rand machine, does most of its arithmetic at machine speed on primitive abacuses. Frequently, its brokers and clerks have to work...
Seed of the Abacus. The calculating machines that are Bessie's ancestors have roots far back in the past. The abacus, used in ancient Egypt and still used in much of Asia, is a simple figuring device. The French mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-62) designed a mechanical calculator when Louis XIII was king. The present adding machine is a remote descendant of Pascal's design...