Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 163,824 pages of information and 245,954 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Underwood Sundstrand

From Graces Guide
Exhibit at the Bakelite Museum.

1911 David Sundstrand invented an adding machine which was the first to use the arrangement of key which has become standard on calculator and computer keypads.

1927 David and his brother Oscar sold the rights to market and distribute the Sundstrand calculating machine to Underwood-Elliot Fisher Co, a typewriter and office equipment manufacturer. The machines thereafter bore the mark of Underwood Sundstrand.

1930 David died

Oscar joined Underwood and continued developing the Sundstrand adding machine until 1949.


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