Object Details
maker
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
date made
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
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_694217