Calculators.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John W. Suggett collection of calculating devices
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4717
Scope and content
Calculating devices from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including two circular slide rules, three other slide rules, a set of Fischinger drawing instruments (mainly compasses), and several manual adding machines of various designs, including a Thales calculator. One of the flat (non-circular) slide rules is made by Tavernier-Gravet, maker of mathematical instruments in Paris. Most of the adding machines involve a stylus and a metal panel where the calculating is done; the Thales...
Dates:
circa 1892-1911.
Preserving the Past oral history project transcripts and tapes
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-2-2934
Scope and content
Transcripts and audio tapes of interviews with members of the Classes of 1922-1941 and conducted by members of the Class of 1966 and 1997 at Cornell's annual reunions in 1996 and 1997. Also includes videotapes of interviews conducted in 2002-2003. Digital versions of some of these interviews as well as some additional interviews and transcripts are also included.
Dates:
1996-2003.