Object Details
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This dark olive-green printing electric adding machine has a block of nine white plastic number keys with a 0 bar below. One can enter numbers up to ten digits long. On the right side are six function keys for subtotal, total, non-add, error, subtraction, and addition. In front of the keyboard is a white clearance knob. A hole for a handle on the right is covered with a metal piece. A narrow carriage, with printing mechanism, is at the back. It prints results of at least ten digits (the eleventh type bar may be for a digit or a symbol). The ribbon is black, and there is room for another ribbon.
- The machine is marked on the front: Burroughs. A red tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #137. A metal tag attached to the object reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation. The object was model #137 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
- Burroughs introduced the ten-key series P machine in 1949. According to the accession file, this is the first model and was associated with the Burroughs inventor John Magnus.
- Reference:
- Accession file 1982.0794.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- ca 1949
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.23
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.23
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 cm x 23 cm x 34 cm; 9 1/16 in x 9 1/16 in x 13 3/8 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_690113
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1a4d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
