National Museum of American History
Rotating Mathematical Table, Sinclair's Freight Computer
Sinclair, Albert · 1869
By the late 1860s, railroads were vital to American commerce. This is the U.S. patent model for a rotating multiplication table used to compute freight charges. It was patented by Albert Sinclair of West Waterville, Maine, in 1869.
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