Sur une nouvelle machine a calculer in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie Sciences, Volume 109, 1889, pp. 737-9 [DIRECT-MULTIPLYING CALCULATOR]
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1889. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BOLLEE’S PAPER DETAILING THE CALCULATING MACHINE WHICH EMBODIED A MULTIPLICATION TABLE. The Bollee machine “could be considered the direct ancestor of the Millionaire”... “the first commercially successful mechanical calculator that could perform a direct multiplication” (Wikipedia). “Most early calculating machines carried out..... More