As part of All Things Considered's series on now-obsolete sounds, listeners recall fond memories of the old mechanical adding machine. We asked listeners to send sounds from older technologies, things ...

Is there a knowledgeable audience out there for Elmer Rice's 1923 masterpiece of American Expressionism, "The Adding Machine?" If so, then these bright bulbs should immediately line up to see this ...

Mr. Zero is aptly named. The guy’s a great big zilch: a number cruncher made obsolete by machines who can do the crunching better and faster; a limp biscuit of a husband who melts into his recliner ...