Object Details
maker
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Description
This full-keyboard key-driven non-printing adding machine has nine columns of keys with nine keys in each column. Complementary digits are indicated on the keys. Keys for odd digits are concave, and those for even digits are flat. The machine has a metal case painted black, with the keyboard painted green. Ten windows at the front of the machine show wheels giving the result. Three decimal markers that slide above these. The zeroing lever is on the right side. There also is a key on the upper left.
A mark on the front reads: Burroughs Calculator. One on the back reads: Burroughs (/) THIS MACHINE PROTECTED BY U.S. AND FOREIGN PATENTS. A metal tag on the bottom reads: 5-898901. This is a Burroughs Class 5.
Compare 1990.0316.04.
This object was lent to the Smithsonian Institution in 1924 as an example of a current product of Burroughs Adding Machine Company. More recently Unisys Corporation transformed that loan into a gift.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Unisys Corporation
date made
1924
ID Number
MA.308344
maker number
5-898901
catalog number
308344
accession number
2011.0264
Object Name
adding machine
Other Terms
adding machine; Full-Keyboard, Non-Listing, Manual
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
rubber (overall material)
wood (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 15.3 cm x 27 cm x 30.5 cm; 6 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 12 in
place made
United States: Michigan, Detroit
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690197