The first tote boards were manufactured for the horse racing industry by the American Totalizator Company.

The history of the automatic totalizator

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.

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.