Computers steampunk (22 photos) Bashny.Net

Some imagine stimpankovy computer as something gigantic, glittering with colored tubes, blinding electric arcs scary twisting copper wheels and inflate pneumatic hoses.
Real computers Couple Age looked not so scary:

Woman with advertisement 1913 uses a dual-mode counting machine company Burroughs, who knows how to add, subtract, multiply, and (possible, though not certain) to share.





That version of such a machine (1915), specially adapted for billing for gas and / or electricity and equipped with an electric drive:



The era of mechanical calculating machines, the first samples of which appeared in the XVII century, really began in the 1880s. First Dorr Eugene Felt, co-owner of Pullman, invented and patented comptometer - calculating machine and komptograf - first mechanical counting machine connected to the printing device.
Competitor Felt, William Seward Burroughs, developed his adding machine later, but proved to be more successful businessman. For several decades, the company he founded has been a leading manufacturer of counting machines in the United States. By the way, this Barrows - native grandfather of William Seward Burroughs writer II, which to a certain extent anticipated the cyberpunk. A collection of his essays called "Counting Machine».
At first, the machine only able to add, but very quickly learned how to subtract, and then - to multiply and divide. This is an early example of companies Standard (1891):



Technical improvements have saved accountants, statisticians and clerks from having to rotate after each operation lever tight. On the new models this lever only serves to reset and wide carriage enables you to print not only a single column of numbers, but if necessary, and tables. Meet - Universal 1906:



Special machines have memory - at the touch of a button you can enter a combination of numbers (for example, standard fare). I do not know whether such specialization from product Connecticut Computing Machine Company (1908):



Two types of products the company Burroughs - 1910 and 1912 .:



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Machinery easier - purely additive (also called accumulators):
Sundstrand No.3, 1911



Dalton, 1913



This car company Gancher - portable. With data input using stylus. Not a laptop, not a netbook, but very, very compact:



A couple of small computing machines, in 1918 and 1920 .:



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As we see from nizhesledzhuyuschego ads cost a decent computing machine is not cheap. In any case, much more expensive than the Ford Model T:



Computers, combined with high-grade printers:

Remington No.11



Smith Premier No.10



Wales Visible electric



Underwood Computing Machine Model B, 1911



NCR Class 3000



The closest relatives of computers - the cash registers. Their largest producer was the company NCR (National Cash Register):



Mechanical unit has also been equipped with "memory" - some buttons are set at the price most running products.



In addition, this device instantly counting the amount of deposit, when you bought the goods on the dollar (the ruble, pound) with a trifle, stretched five cashier:



And all this - without pneumatic, arc lamps, membranous wings and special effects. Because in the age of steam loved practical, functional and beautiful at the same things.

via ru_steampunk



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