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Remington Adding and Subtracting Typewriter

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Remington Typewriter Company
Wahl Adding Machine Company
Description
This is a combination adding machine and typewriter. The upstrike typewriter has a QWERTY keyboard with two shift keys, a shift lock key, a tab stop set key, a back spacer key, and a space bar. Behind each of the number keys is a bar which leads up to the adding attachment. Keys in a row across the bottom front set the place of the first digit in a number. The typewriter has two carriages. The front one carries a single register that indicates seven-digit totals. The carriage in back has tab-setting devices. Behind this is the ribbon, the rubber platen, and the paper tray. The machine has four rubber feet and two rubber handles for the platen.
A mark on the paper tray reads: Remington (/)Adding and Subtracting (/) Typewriter. A mark at the bottom front reads: Remington Standard Typewriter No. 11. Marks on the adding mechanism below the front carriage and on the moveable register read: WAHL ADDING MACHINE Co. (/) CHICAGO. The adding mechanism is also marked: PATENTED IN (/) UNITED STATES AND (/) FOREIGN COUNTRIES. (/) DATES & NUMBERS ON (/) BACK COVER. OTHER (/) PATENTS PENDING. (/) DISCOUNT. Marks on the back of the adding attachment give American, French and British patents.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Atle Gjelsvik
ca 1913
ID Number
2000.0106.01
accession number
2000.0106
catalog number
2000.0106.01
Object Name
bookkeeping machine
Physical Description
rubber (overall material)
iron (overall material)
steel (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 29.2 cm x 43 cm x 43 cm; 11 1/2 in x 16 15/16 in x 16 15/16 in
place made
United States: Illinois, Chicago
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Bookkeeping Machines
Science & Mathematics
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Business
Record ID
nmah_904253
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-6d55-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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