Frank Stephen Baldwin

Name: An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine
Author: Frank Stephen Baldwin

An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

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“An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine”, published in 1919, is a work by Frank Stephen Baldwin. It explores elements such as machine, calculator and Monroe.

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Frank Stephen Baldwin, An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

“ I contrived the plan of substituting one cylinder for the nine cylinders in that machine, making a working model, which is now in the Patent Office at Washington.
It was on this model that William Seward Burroughs, later of Burroughs Adding Machine fame, did some work for me in a small general machine shop, which he, with his father, had in St Louis. Not until about 1880 did Mr. Burroughs start work on his own adding machine with a keyboard set-up. The meteoric success of the business that bears the Burroughs name is history. ”

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Frank Stephen Baldwin, An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

“ I showed him my machine. At once he saw it possibilities. We joined hands and set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in its adaptation to the needs of modern business.
The result of that work and our later association is the Monroe High Speed Adding-Calculator which is filling no small part in faithful, economic service in the realm of business. ”

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Frank Stephen Baldwin, An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

“ Baldwin, who writes and recites Pi to 128 places’ Professor Newcomb was very much interested in the calculator and complimented me highly.
All this time I was holding demonstrations in the evening at the hotel or in private houses with the machine, as most people had never heard of such a thing as ‘metal brains,’ and some, thinking I had manipulated certain figures, would insist on giving me problems of their own, often in their haste making a mistake and having to retire in confusion. ”

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Frank Stephen Baldwin, An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

“ The year after, we moved to Philadelphia where I rented a small shop and started to make ten of the calculating machines. While thus engaged, I saw the expediency of a small machine to supplement the larger one, and designed an adding machine which I named the ‘Arithmometer,’ and this patent, dated July 28, 1874, was the first one of the kind granted me by the United States Patent Office. It was also one of the first adding machines sold in the United States. ”

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Frank Stephen Baldwin, An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

“ Of course I was elated at this proof of the utility of the machine and plunged into the business with renewed vigor, but I soon found that I had undertaken too heavy a task. So I made a contract with the Reliance Machine Works of Philadelphia to manufacture the machines, while I took charge of the Sales Department. I met with considerable success in selling the adding machines, but found the town too slow to accept the calculators, so I concluded to try New York. There I sold several calculators to the leading life insurance companies and one to the State Department in Albany. ”

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Frank Stephen Baldwin, An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

“ Some of these machines are still in use, after more than a quarter century of service. In 1905, I designed a listing machine with only ten keys and a spacer.
In 1908, I was awarded a patent on the Baldwin Recording Calculator, which combined the listing machine with the calculator. This machine, with the keyboard and oscillating bars, formed the germ of the present Monroe. ”

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Frank Stephen Baldwin, An Interview with the Father of the Calculating Machine (1919)

“ I have used for the last four months one of your large machines daily in this department and have no hesitation in saying it performs its work rapidly and reliably, and for the purpose used does the work of at least three men with a certainty of correctness and greater rapidity. ”

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