The abacus was the "great grandparent" of many other kinds of counting machines, such as the adding machine, the cash register, the computer, and the electronic calculator. It's easy to see where we...
A Bear Called Paddington
from A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond with drawings by Peggy Fortnum Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform. In fact, that was how he came to have such an unusual name...