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January 13, 1874

The U.S. Patent Office issues a patent for the Spalding Adding Machine.

The U.S. Patent Office issues a patent for the Spalding Adding Machine. The precursor of calculators and computers, mechanical adding machines could do simple arithmetic and were popular in businesses until supplanted by computers in the 1960s.