Object Details
distributor
Muggli, Theo
maker
Muggli, Theo
Description
This full keyboard non-printing adding machine has ten columns of keys, with nine keys per column. The keys are colored black and white according to the place value of the digits. The black keys are round, the white keys are polygonal. At the top are 11 windows that show the result. These windows are covered by a single piece of glass. Two decimal markers slide in front of these windows. A zeroing lever is on the right side. Red plastic function keys are to the right and the left of the keyboard.
The machine is marked on the top: DIRECT II. It is marked at the front: THEO MUGGLI ZURICH (/) MADE IN SWITZERLAND PROTECTED BY PATENTS. The serial number, on the bottom at the front, is 20146. This object was number 23 in the Felt & Tarrant collection of adding and calculating machines. Manufacture of the Direct II began in the 1920s or 1930s.
Reference:
“Theo Muggli Passes Away,” Business Equipment Topics, 84 (June, 1933): p. 22.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Victor Comptometer Corporation
date made
ca 1930
ID Number
MA.323607
accession number
250163
catalog number
323607
Object Name
adding machine
Physical Description
plastic (overall material)
steel (overall material)
glass (overall material)
brass (overall material)
rubber (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 16.5 cm x 30 cm x 40 cm; 6 1/2 in x 11 13/16 in x 15 3/4 in
place made
Switzerland: Zürich, Zurich
place distributed
Switzerland: Zürich, Zurich
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690309