Object Details
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This full-keyboard printing manual machine has a metal case painted black with a green keyboard. It has nine columns of black and white plastic keys, with nine keys in each column. The odd-numbered keys are concave and the even-numbered keys are flat. Complementary digits are indicated. Ten windows at the front show the sum of numbers entered. A crank at the left zeros the digits in these windows. A single key in the upper left corner controls the numeral wheel seen through the tenth window.
- The machine is marked on the front, underlined: Burroughs Calculator. The serial number, on a plate on the bottom, is: 5-660768. It is marked on the back: Burroughs (/) THIS MACHINE PROTECTED BY U.S. AND FOREIGN PATENTS.
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company introduced the Burroughs Calculator in about 1911 to compete with the Comptometer. It sold as the Burroughs Class 5 from 1918.
- Compare MA.308344 and 1986.3039.01..
- Reference:
- American Digest of Business Machines, 1924, pp. 70, 71. This suggests that the machine is a Burroughs model 5205.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1920
- ID Number
- 1990.0316.04
- accession number
- 1990.0316
- catalog number
- 333873
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.7 cm x 24.8 cm x 30.2 cm; 5 13/32 in x 9 3/4 in x 11 7/8 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_690201
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-07b4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
