Object Details
- Burroughs Corporation
- Description
- This printing electric adding machine has a metal case painted a grayish tan and a full keyboard of plastic keys in two shades of tan. It has ten columns of keys, with keys numbered from 1 to 9 in each column. A 12” adjustable carriage is across the back, but no cover piece for the back of the carriage and no cord is present.. Adjustable sheet feeders for printing on pieces of paper are in place. The machine prints ten digits and one special character. Two additional plastic pieces were received with the machine.
- The machine was model #260 in the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation. It is marked across the front above the keyboard: Burroughs. It is marked on a metal tag attached to the bottom: 1880-B. It is marked on white paper tag: Burroughs P401 Elec. (/) #1880B (/) A. Williamson 3-3-54 (/) Developing Model (/) A. Williamson.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- ca 1954
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.62
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.62
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 29.5 cm x 49 cm x 40 cm; 11 5/8 in x 19 9/32 in x 15 3/4 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_694164
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1893-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
