Automatic totalisator
Totalizador automático de apuestas
- Date
- 1913 · confidence high
- Place
- Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand
- Credited to
- George Julius
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
An electromechanical machine that adds up the bets on each horse, computes the odds and shows them in real time. It was first installed at the Ellerslie racecourse in Auckland in 1913.
Julius, English-born, raised in New Zealand and living in Sydney, installed his machine in New Zealand; the first installation was in Auckland. It is a precursor of real-time computing systems.
What it led to
- totalisators in racecourses worldwide, including Longchamp
- an early example of a real-time data-processing system
- the company Automatic Totalisators Ltd.