Accession No

3797

Brief Description

“Fuller’s Computing Telegraph”, interest calculator and manual, by J. E. Fuller, U.S.A., 1862 - 1865

Origin

U.S.A.; New York

Maker

Fuller, J. E. Palmer, Aaron

Class

calculating

Earliest Date

1862

Latest Date

1865

Inscription Date

Material

paper (cardboard and two others); metal (brass)

Dimensions

breadth 287mm; height 284mm; thickness 12mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Scientific Periodicals Library, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1991.

Inscription

‘FULLER’S
COMPUTING
TELEGRAPH.’ (front cover)
‘Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by J.E. Fuller, In the Clerks office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
PALMER’S
IMPROVED BY
FULLER.
COMPUTING SCALE.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by Aaron Palmer, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the State of Massachusetts.
and by J.E Fuller 1847.
Engraved by George G. Smith 186 Washington St. Boston’ (front)

Description Notes

“Fuller’s Computing Telegraph”, Interest calculator and manual by Fuller, USA, 1862 - 1865.

Hard-backed paper covered book holding the scale and pages of instruction manual. The scale is cardboard covered in varnished paper with printed circular scale. Rotatable disc set in centre of both sides of the scale with central pivoting brass pin. One side is a time telegraph for calculating weeks and months from a certain date; on the other side is a scale for calculating interest with some other information provided on capacity and area measures. On the inside cover of the book is a chart with populations of each American State and details of their slave populations. Instruction manual entiltled ‘Telegraphic computer, a most wonderful and extraordinary instrument, by which business questions of every possible variety, are instantly performed: a safe and speedy check to avoid vexatious errors, affording at the same time a greater amount of practical business knowledge, than can be obtained for ten times the cost of the work. Inside back cover is folded a table: ‘Analytical Table of Machanical Movements’.

Condition fair; complete

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