Word: friden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Square Dealer. California's Friden Calculating Machine Co. has developed a mechanical calculator which, for the first time, can do such tricks as extracting the square root of a ten-digit number in nine seconds without the help of printed tables. The machine (about the size of a large typewriter) will lop many man-hours off complicated calculations needed for guided missiles, gun sights, aircraft, etc. Price: about...