Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
Tallies;Reckoning boards;Accounting machines -- History
Two accounting aids of great importance for society in Sweden and Finland during the17th, 18th and 19th centuries were the reckoning board and the tally stick.