Careful Calculations

ID: 717 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: Old Waco High School
Careful Calculations

Four students use mechanical calculators to check their figures for an assignment. While they might appear primitive by today's technological standards, these adding machines were state of art at the time.

This file appears in: Old Waco High School

By Paige Sullivan
Old Waco High School is the oldest of several extant buildings to have housed Waco High School. Initially the school met in two small buildings in downtown Waco during the 1880s, and for many years was the only public school west of the Brazos. The…