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

See more items in: 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

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BURROUGHS CLASS 3 ADDING MACHINE

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