Calculating

Examples

• Baldwin, a construction engineer, living in the United States, began to work on calculating machines in 1870. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She was aware of Mademoiselle standing near, like a little French beetle, observant and calculating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Here was a new stunner--I had been calculating on four or five thousand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• No practical business man would erect a turbine or paddle wheel without calculating in advance the value of his water power. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He commenced to construct an automatic calculating machine, which he called a difference engine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I am calculating on the exposure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was early in the seventeenth century that Napier, a native of Naples, invented the first actual mechanical means of calculating. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mrs. Garth had not again looked at Fred, and was not in the least calculating what words she should use to cut him the most effectively. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Story of the Calculating Machine How did Men Learn to Count? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This was the first calculating machine made with dials. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Emmy was calculating eagerly the time that would elapse before the letter would arrive and be answered. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The same principle, that of using discs with figures on their peripheries, is employed in present-day calculating machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I gave it her; and she regarded the now visible, but precipitous steps, as if calculating her capacity to descend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You are far-seeing; you are calculating. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Adding and calculating machines have become almost as necessary in modern business as the telephone and the typewriter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He showed Edison the work he had already done on the subject, and told him that he would very soon finish calculating it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And this, surely, must be the work of the calculating and rational principle in the soul? Plato. The Republic.
• It was inclosed to him, and as he opened the letter he trembled lest the dinner should be put off on which he was calculating. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The next adding and calculating machine was an evolution from the digits of the human hand and is known as the abacus in China, and the soroban in Japan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He became acquainted with all the different types of adding and so-called calculating machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But other ingredients mingled with these, and prevented him from becoming the calculating, determined character, which alone forms a successful hero. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He turned again to the pages of his diary, calculating rapidly under his breath. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Scheutz’s engine had mechanism for calculating with four orders of differences of sixteen figures each. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This calculating machine, however, seemed to be too much in advance of the times, and Mr. Baldwin was unable to interest capital in it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In 1875 a patent was granted him on a calculating machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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