Object Details
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This full-keyboard printing electric adding machine adds numbers with as many as 13 digits and prints 13-digit results. It is tan and brown and has 13 columns of square plastic digit keys, with nine keys in each column. There also are five function keys and bars labeled “+” and “-”. The sides, front, and back of the case are missing. A narrow printing mechanism at the top of the machine has a ribbon and paper tape. It has 15 type bars. The first two print special characters and the rest print digits.
- The machine is marked: Burroughs P 402 Elec. (/) A9103-20 (/) Date-Count-Normal (/) Rack #E Shelf 2. It is model #282 from the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- ca 1950
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.74
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.74
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 26.5 cm x 32 cm x 39.5 cm; 10 7/16 in x 12 19/32 in x 15 9/16 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_694215
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1211-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
