Object Details
maker
Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company
Description
Careful study often indicated improved ways of using adding machines. For example, Comptometer operators were trained to use only the first five (lower) keys of a Comptometer. It was quicker to push a “4” key and a “5” key than to reach up and push a “9” key. This device assisted in training. It has a green plastic base with a 5x5 keyboard. The key stems and keyboard are metal, while the keys and base are plastic. The keys are alternately concave (odd digits) and flat (even digits). There is no mechanism. The device is marked: COMPTOMETER (/) EDUCATOR (/) A FELT AND TARRANT PRODUCT.
Aprivately owned undated brochure for the Comptometer Educator uses some of the same photographs as a 1954 training manual for Comptometer operators, hence the date assigned. For the 1954 training manual, see 1994.3060.008.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Myron R. Smith
date made
ca 1955
ID Number
1989.0325.05
catalog number
1989.0325.05
accession number
1989.0325
Object Name
adding machine training device
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 10.5 cm x 14 cm x 17.3 cm; 4 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 6 13/16 in
place made
United States: Illinois, Chicago
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Women Teaching Math
Adding Machines
Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Women's History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690480