Object Details
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This full-keyboard non-printing key-driven adding machine has twelve columns of plastic keys numbered from 1 to 9. The rightmost column has 10 and 11 keys at the top and 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 keys below. Fourteen result wheels are at the front. A black cloth cover and numerous spare parts are present.
- A red paper tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #232. The machine is marked on the front: Burroughs (/) DETROIT, U.S.A.. A metal tag below the keys reads: 209662. A white paper tag attached to the machine reads: Reference Machine (/) 9 Columns (/) Style 520 - 1/4 Pence Const. (/) Style 13. A mark on the cover reads: BURROUGHS.
- This was model 232 from the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation. There are numerous associated parts.
- The shape of the front of this instrument is that of an early Burroughs calculator. The number of columns would be that of a Burroughs model 550, although the tag refers to a Burroughs 520. From 1915, the shape of the front of the Burroughs calculator was quite different.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- ca 1913
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.50
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.50
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- cloth (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 17.2 cm x 30.5 cm x 36.2 cm; 6 25/32 in x 12 in x 14 1/4 in
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1080115
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-9405-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
