Thursday May 01st 2008, 9:37 pm by Steve Portigal
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The first tote boards were manufactured for the horse racing industry by the American Totalizator Company.
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The history of the automatic totalizator
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Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting.
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We need a family tree visualization to make any sense of this, but it seems that the Totalizator has a space in the history of computing.
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