Object Details
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This full-keyboard printing adding machine has a steel mechanism and off-white and gray-brown plastic keys. There are ten columns of color-coded digit keys. Right of these is a column of function keys. On the far right are addition and subtraction bars. The ribbon, printing mechanism, and narrow carriage are at the back of the machine, with a serrated edge for tearing the paper tape. The machine has no case. Wiring is present but no cord. The machine has 11 type bars.
- A red paper tag attached to the object reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #345. A metal tag reads: 3531-2. Another metal tag reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation.
- This object was model #345 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- ca 1950
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.87
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.87
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20.5 cm x 24 cm x 32.5 cm; 8 1/16 in x 9 7/16 in x 12 25/32 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_694217
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-3d65-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
