Object Details
maker
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Description
This full keyboard non-printing manual adding machine is painted black with a green keyboard. It has black and white octagonal plastic keys. The nine columns of keys have nine keys in each column. Odd-numbered keys are concave, even-numbered ones flat. Complementary digits are indicated as well as numbers. Ten windows at the front show the sum of numbers as the numbers are entered. A single key in the upper left corner controls the numeral wheel seen through the tenth window. The machine has two legs at the back which hold it up at an angle. There is a black plastic cover. Compare to Burroughs calculator.
The Burroughs calculator was sold as the Burroughs Class 5 from 1918 into the 1960s.
Reference:
American Digest of Business Machines, 1924, pp. 70-71.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Western Union Telegraph Company
date made
1934
ID Number
1986.3039.01
catalog number
1986.3039.01
nonaccession number
1986.3039
Object Name
adding machine
Physical Description
rubber (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
metal (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 17 cm x 24.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 6 11/16 in x 9 21/32 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_690655