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Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine

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  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
  • Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine

    Object Details

    maker
    Burroughs Adding Machine Company
    Description
    This full keyboard printing adding machine is manually operated. It has a metal frame painted black, with a metal keyboard painted green. There are five columns of black and white color-coded plastic keys. The non-add, total, and subtotal keys are on the left. The repeat key is on the right. In front of the keys is a row of six number dials, under glass. These indicate the sum of numbers added. The crank on the right side operates the machine.
    Behind the keyboard is the black ribbon, printing mechanism, narrow carriage, and paper tape. The tape is visible to the operator, unlike that on earlier Burroughs machines. There are six digit type bars with an additional type bar right of these that prints symbols.
    The machine is marked on the back of the keyboard, with a line drawn through the letter “O”: BURROUGHS. It is marked on a metal tag at the base of the front: 3-283826. It is marked on the back (partly obscured): BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE CO.
    Compare 323588. Burroughs acquired the Pike Adding Machine Company of Orange, New Jersey, in 1909. This machine is very similar to the Pike.
    Credit Line
    Gift of Western Union Telegraph Company
    date made
    1915
    ID Number
    1986.0192.01
    catalog number
    1986.0192.01
    accession number
    1986.0192
    maker number
    3-283826
    Object Name
    adding machine
    Physical Description
    glass (overall material)
    plastic (overall material)
    metal (overall material)
    paper (overall material)
    Measurements
    overall: 25.5 cm x 28.5 cm x 50 cm; 10 1/32 in x 11 7/32 in x 19 11/16 in
    place made
    United States: Michigan, Detroit
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    Medicine and Science: Mathematics
    Adding Machines
    American Enterprise
    Science & Mathematics
    Exhibition
    American Enterprise
    Exhibition Location
    National Museum of American History
    Data Source
    National Museum of American History
    Subject
    Mathematics
    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0dd0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
    nmah_690654
    NMAH
    BURROUGHS CLASS 3 ADDING MACHINE
    National Museum of American History
    CC0
    Metadata Usage
    CC0
    GUID (Link to Original Record)
    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0dd0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
    Record ID
    nmah_690654

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