Object Details
- distributor
- Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Corporation
- Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Corporation
- Description
- This black and gold notched band adder comes in a maroon cloth-covered cardboard notebook with a rusting stylus. It has eight columns of digits, and nine windows for displaying results. The narrow zeroing rod is at the top. With the object is a piece of the wrapping in which the adder was sent, showing the postage and date mailed.
- With MA.323626, this object is F&T 43 (1&2) from the collection of Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company.
- The VE-PO-AD (Vest Pocket Adder) was sold by Reliable Typewriter and Adding Machine Corporation of Chicago from at least 1924 through at least 1940.
- References: Typewriter Topics, 57 (July 1924) p. 80.
- Popular Science Monthly, 126 (January 1933) p. 107.
- Popular Mechanics, 73 (January 1940) p. 127A, (February 1940) p. 151A, (March, 1940) p. 123A.
- P. Kidwell, "Adders Made and Used in the United States," Rittenhouse, 1994, 8:78-96.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Victor Comptometer Corporation
- 1937
- ID Number
- MA.323627
- catalog number
- 323627
- accession number
- 250163
- Object Name
- adder
- Physical Description
- cloth (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .8 cm x 8.3 cm x 12.6 cm; 5/16 in x 3 9/32 in x 4 31/32 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- place distributed
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adder
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690246
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-14c1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
