Object Details
- Lightning Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This small seven-wheeled stylus-operated non-printing adding machine has a metal case painted green and covered with felt on the back. It sits in a brown bakelite stand. A stylus fits in the ten holes in each wheel. Placing the stylus in the proper hole and and rotating it enters a digit. The sum appears in seven windows above the holes. The two rightmost and the two leftmost wheels are brass. The three middle ones are steel. The device has no zeroing mechanism and the stylus is missing.
- The instrument is marked on the front: THE (/) Lightning (/) ADDING (/) MACHINE (/) CO. (/) LOS ANGELES (/) CALIF. U.S.A.. It is marked with intertwined letters on the back of the stand: GIM.
- This machine is from the calculating machine collection of Myron R. Smith.
- References:
- Office Appliances, January, 1948, vol. 87, p. 225 - sold for $12.95 - also March, 1948, vol. 87, p. 208.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Myron R. Smith
- 1948
- ID Number
- 1989.0325.02
- accession number
- 1989.0325
- catalog number
- 1989.0325.02
- Object Name
- adding machine in stand
- Physical Description
- felt (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 cm x 36 cm x 11 cm; 1 9/16 in x 14 3/16 in x 4 11/32 in
- place made
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690296
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-078e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
