First U.S. “Calculating Machine”

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

ParmeleeToday in 1850, the first US patent (US No. 7,074) for a push-key operated adding machine is issued to Dubois D. Parmelee of New Paltz, New York. The first commercially successful calculator will be invented forty years later by William Burroughs.

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