Object Details
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This full keyboard non-printing manual adding machine is painted black with a green keyboard. It has black and white octagonal plastic keys. The nine columns of keys have nine keys in each column. Odd-numbered keys are concave, even-numbered ones flat. Complementary digits are indicated as well as numbers. Ten windows at the front show the sum of numbers as the numbers are entered. A single key in the upper left corner controls the numeral wheel seen through the tenth window. The machine has two legs at the back which hold it up at an angle. There is a black plastic cover. Compare to Burroughs calculator.
- The Burroughs calculator was sold as the Burroughs Class 5 from 1918 into the 1960s.
- Reference:
- American Digest of Business Machines, 1924, pp. 70-71.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Western Union Telegraph Company
- 1934
- ID Number
- 1986.3039.01
- catalog number
- 1986.3039.01
- nonaccession number
- 1986.3039
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- rubber (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17 cm x 24.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 6 11/16 in x 9 21/32 in x 12 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_690655
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0e64-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
