History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0308 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Machines for the Office
Captions available
The idea
New office machines arrived in quick succession: the typewriter in eighteen sixty-seven, the cash register in eighteen seventy-nine, the adding machine in eighteen eighty-five.
In practice
A clerk's desk remade by three machines in less than twenty years.
Where people slip
Each sped the paperwork that ever-larger businesses produced, from invoices to payrolls.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for History of the United States II