By office machines one understands writing, computing, invoicing, and accounting machines as well as automatic typewriters and EDP building groups.

Many mathematicians, scientist and engineers smoothed the way to the office machine.

The first calculating machine (calculator) was the Abacus and around 500 v.Chr in Babylon was built.

1642 developed the scientist Blaise Pascal a calculating machine from wheels and gear wheels. Improvements became by Gottfried William Leibniz, W.T. Odhner, Dorr E. Felt, franc S. Baldwin, and Jay R. Monroe accomplished.

Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) developed a calculating machine, which could count and compare into the 1880er years. Information was read in, arranged, sorted and spent by punch cards.

1714 began the history of the development of the typewriter. Henry Mill let a machine, with which one could to be written words as printed patent. Friedrich of Knaus placed 18 in the second half. Century ago, Swiss Uhrmacher Pierre Jaquet Droz automatic typewriter, so-called Androiden built several Pantographen (write apparatuses). The mechanic Wolfgang von Kempelen designed a typewriter for Blinde.1864 built the actual inventor of the typewriter Peter Mitterhofer a machine, which became with pin points a punch code in the paper erzeugte.1865 the first typewriter factory-moderately produced. Since 1888 the keyboard is standardized and essentially remained it up to the today's day.

1923 were produced by Burroughs the first multiplication invoicing machine.

Today computers took over the tasks of the different office machines.

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