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Table Top Calculator that is the Table, and the Top

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The "Proportior" (sounding somewhat like an exclamation, like Excelsior!, and looking for all the world like it should be spelled some other more appropriate way) a fabulous desktop/tabletop calculator, as seen in the Science, October 4, 1889:

Thanks to Ray Girvan for the link to a successful download of images for this!

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John, the scans aren't visible to non-US readers. However, the same article's available via JSTOR, at the Internet Archive: "The Proportior (October 4, 1889)" https://archive.org/details/jstor-1762818

Posted by: Ray Girvan | July 21, 2014 at 03:32 PM

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