Acknowledgements
I'd like to express my acknowledgements to individuals, organizations, sites, books and other sources of information, without them this site would be impossible for creation. As sometimes is impossible to find which is the primary source of a given material and if it is copyrighted, if you find such material in this site, please e-mail me to fix my error. All copyrights are property of the below mentioned subjects (listed in alphabetical order):
Web Sites:
- Andre Devaux, http://calmeca.free.fr
- Analysés par les scientifiques d´aujourd´hui, http://www.bibnum.education.fr
- Brooke W. Boering, members.cruzio.com/%7Evagabond/ComptHome.html
- Erez Kaplan, http://192.220.96.166
- Herbert Schneemann, www.rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com
- Jay M. Goldman, http://www.jmgoldman.com
- John Wolff's Web Museum, home.vicnet.net.au/~wolff/
- Nico Baaijens (www.calculi.nl)
- Stephan Weiss, www.mechrech.info
- Valéry Monnier, www.arithmometre.org, www.ami19.org
- Walter Szrek, www.calculators.szrek.com
- Wikipedia
- Totalisator History by Brian Conlon
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