Object Details
- Allen Wales Adding Machine Corporation
- Description
- This full-keyboard printing electric adding machine has a metal frame painted black, seven columns of black and white color-coded number keys, two columns of blue number keys, and a column of red month keys. The keyboard is painted green. Above the keyboard is a row of nine windows showing numeral dials. Behind this is the printing mechanism and a 31 cm. (12”) movable carriage. Covers for the ribbon are screwed in place. A roll of 6 cm. wide tape is in the carriage.
- The machine is marked on the front: ALLEN WALES. It is marked at the bottom of the front: 16E169377 It is marked on the back: ALLEN WALES ADDING MACHINE CORPORATION (/) ITHACA, NEW YORK (/) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It is marked on a red paper tag attached to the machine: PATENT DEPT. (/) #255. It is marked on a white paper tag attached ALLEN WALES No 16E-169377 (/) Brown Crystal Case (/) 10 Columns with Month Keys (/) S A C T Carriage 12” (/) Add and Subtract Motor Bars.
- The documentation on NCR machines suggests that this machine may date from 1947. This example was model #255 in the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- ca 1947
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.59
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.59
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30 cm x 46.3 cm x 44.5 cm; 11 13/16 in x 18 7/32 in x 17 17/32 in
- place made
- United States: New York, Ithaca
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690626
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-11a5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
