BOLLEE< Leon. "Sur une nouvelle machine a calculer", in Comptes Rendus, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, November 11, 1889, volume 109, #20, pp 737-739 in the weekly issue of pp 723-774. Removed from a larger bound volume. Good condition. SOLD
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This was a surprise, finding M. Bollee's article (Sur une nouvelle machine a calculer) in this 1889 Comptes Rendus, pecking around in that big 10-pound volume looking for something else. It was very easy to miss if you weren't looking for it, just a few pages long in a 1000-page book. But there it was, nestled comfortably in pp 737-739. It these few pages Bollee describes his machine and with particular reference to his innovative approach to direct multipilication--a fine addition (ha!) to the long line of contributions by Babbage and Clement, Scheutz, Wiberg and Grant and Hamann. Bollee's device would be more popularly remembered in its incarnation in the 1890's as the relatively popular device named "The Millionaire".
An image of the machine from The Manufacturer and Builder:
See: the Making of America, http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=manu;cc=manu;rgn=full%20text;idno=manu0022-7;didno=manu0022-7;view=image;seq=0162;node=manu0022-7%3A21
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