Computer Timeline – Page 24 – Yet another site for bright people, crafted by Georgi Dalakov

04 Feb 1890

Frederick Fuller

In the spring of 1888 the young inventor and self-taught engineer Frederick Fuller of Waterbury, Connecticut, saw a model of cash register while working in the shop of the Specialty Manufacturing Co., a firm engaged in special brass work, models of inventions, clock movements, etc., owned by the Griswold family...Read More

11 Mar 1890

Ezra Witter

Ezra Edgar Witter (1855-1939), a farmer from Milford Center, Ohio, was a holder of many (at least 15) US and Canadian patents between 1888 and 1920 for various (mostly agricultural) devices, for example, machines for making fences, a marker for corn planters, corn harvesters, lubricator, match safe, hinge, and others...Read More

10 Jun 1890

Hugo Cook

The Indiana born prominent American engineer, inventor and instrument maker Hugo Cook (1857-1944) was a holder of many US and Canada patents from 1883 until 1925 for various devices (like sewing machine implements, bicycle spokes, autographic register, motor vehicle traction apparatus, etc.), between them quite a few calculators (adding machines..Read More

01 Jul 1890

William Lang

William Lang was a businessman (founder of William Lang Company of Brooklyn, a manufacturer of metal goods) and prolific inventor from Brooklyn, New York. He patented a wide range of goods, including a windows shade pull, a speed indicator, a fife, a curtain-pole ring, a box fastener, a watch case,..Read More

13 Aug 1890

Franz Cuhel

The Moravian and Austrian economist František Čuhel (1862-1914) (known mainly under his Germanized name Franz Cuhel) obtained his doctorate in law in Prague (Univerzity Karlovy) in 1886 and became a trainee at the Chamber of Commerce in Prague. In 1887 he (together with his brother Heinrich) registered a Priorität for..Read More

23 Nov 1890

Willard Bundy

At the end of the 1880s the American businessman Willard Legrand Bundy (1845-1907), an owner of a jewelry store in Auburn, New York, devised the first electric cash-register in the world. The patent application was filed in September 1889 and the device was patented on 23 December 1890 (US patent..Read More

03 Feb 1891

Melvin Lovell

Starting from 1869, the young carpenter by trade, Melvin Newton Lovell (1844-1895) from Erie, Pennsylvania, later a wooden-ware manufacturer and successful businessman, received numerous patents for various devices, between them several patents for adding machines (cash registers). Lovell’s first patent for cash indicating, registering, and accounting machine (US patent Nr...Read More

17 Feb 1891

Eri Jewett

In the late 1880s Eri Ferris Jewett (1835-1916), a civil engineer and surveyor from Newtown, Hamilton County, Ohio, invented a simple calculating device, one of the many incarnations of Abaque Rhabdologique of Claude Perrault. In April 1890 Jewett applied for a patent, which was granted on 17 February 1891 (US..Read More

03 Mar 1891

Lewis Hosea and William Beardsley

In December 1889, Lewis Hosea, a lawyer and amateur mechanic, and William Beardsley, a businessman, both from Cincinnati, Ohio, applied for a patent for one-column keyboard adding machine (suitable for adding one-digit numbers). The patent was granted on 3 March 1891 (US patent Nr. 447457). Besides the patent application, nothing..Read More

03 Nov 1891

Harry Rumble

On 15 September 1890, the young architect and civil engineer Harry Humfrey Rumble (1866-1948), from Westgate-on-Sea, a small seaside town in the northeast county of Kent, England, received a Great Britain patent for a keyboard adding machine (patent No. 14527). Next year, on 3 November 1891, the machine was patented..Read More