Object Details
distributor
Sunset House
Description
This adder has a red plastic back and a gray steel front. There are six columns for entering numbers with a stylus, and a seventh notched band to record carries to a seventh digit. A set of seven openings above the bracket-shaped columns of the adder displays the result. A zeroing bar is across the top. The plastic is shaped to hold the steel stylus.
The object is marked: MAGIC-BRAIN [/] CALCULATOR; ADD + [/] SUBTRACT - [/] MULTIPLY X; and: JAPAN. Instructions are stored separately. Compare to 1987.0375.01.
References: Popular Science, February, 1962, vol. 180, p. 20. This ad indicates that the Magic-Brain Calculator cost $.98 and was distributed from the Sunset Building, Beverly Hills, California.
P. Kidwell, “Adders Made and Used in the United States,” Rittenhouse, 8, (1994): pp. 78-96.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1960
ID Number
1993.3058.01
nonaccession number
1993.3058
catalog number
1993.3058.01
Object Name
adder
Physical Description
plastic (overall material)
steel (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 1 cm x 7 cm x 14.4 cm; 13/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 21/32 in
place made
Japan
place distributed
United States: California, Beverly Hills
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Adder
Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690276