Object Details
maker
Lightning Adding Machine Company
Description
This small seven-wheeled stylus-operated non-printing adding machine has a metal case painted green and covered with felt on the back. It sits in a brown bakelite stand. A stylus fits in the ten holes in each wheel. Placing the stylus in the proper hole and and rotating it enters a digit. The sum appears in seven windows above the holes. The two rightmost and the two leftmost wheels are brass. The three middle ones are steel. The device has no zeroing mechanism and the stylus is missing.
The instrument is marked on the front: THE (/) Lightning (/) ADDING (/) MACHINE (/) CO. (/) LOS ANGELES (/) CALIF. U.S.A.. It is marked with intertwined letters on the back of the stand: GIM.
This machine is from the calculating machine collection of Myron R. Smith.
References:
Office Appliances, January, 1948, vol. 87, p. 225 - sold for $12.95 - also March, 1948, vol. 87, p. 208.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Myron R. Smith
date made
1948
ID Number
1989.0325.02
accession number
1989.0325
catalog number
1989.0325.02
Object Name
adding machine in stand
Physical Description
felt (overall material)
steel (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
brass (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 4 cm x 36 cm x 11 cm; 1 9/16 in x 14 3/16 in x 4 11/32 in
place made
United States: California, Los Angeles
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690296