Object Details
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This full-keyboard manually operated printing adding machine has a metal frame painted black, a metal mechanism and handle, a green felt keyboard, and a glass front. There are six columns of number keys, with nine keys in each column. Some plastic key covers are missing. There are non-add, subtotal, and total keys. The sum appears on number wheels visible through the glass front of the machine and prints on a 2-1/2 inch paper tape at the back which is not visible. The machine is marked on the front: BURROUGHS (/) DETROIT, MICHIGAN. It is also marked there: No.6-157907.
- Alfred Harrell, the donor of the machine, was a Smithsonian photographer.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Al Harrell
- 1912
- ID Number
- 1981.0368.01
- accession number
- 1981.0368
- catalog number
- 1981.0368.01
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 31.5 cm x 23.5 cm x 39 cm; 12 13/32 in x 9 1/4 in x 15 11/32 in
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690204
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-fee4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
