The calculator is the most common machine to add and subtract numbers. Computers are also very good at this and are adding and subtracting for us all the time.
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Pascal
I will say it was the pascaline, created by Blaise Pascal in 1642. It was a mechanical calculator that could add and subtract directly.
Finally completed in 1694 the Leibnitz calculator can add,subtract,multiply, and divide numbers. The stepped drum principle of Gottfried Leibnitz's invention survived for 300 years.
An Abacus is a device to help do math.It is basically a frame with rods and beads in the rods.One rod will represent ones,the next tens, then hundreds,then thousands.You move the beads up when you want to add and down when you want to subtract.
That time is using a 24 hour clock instead of a 12 hour, so 1pm is 1300, to figure any time out past 12, subtract 12 from it and add pm 1900=7:00pm