Object Details
- Marchant
- Description
- This is a model designed to demonstrate “simplified multiplication” on a Marchant calculating machine. It has a rectangular wooden base and a metal frame. The single bank of keys has nine square gray keys on it. The operating handle is on the right side. The shape of the keys suggests that this model is from the mid-1960s, when multiplication keys on SCM Marchant models such as the CFA were square. However, the rest of the mechanism, particularly the wooden base, suggest an earlier date.
- A metal tag attached to the base reads: SIMPLIFIED (/) MULTIPLICATION. It also reads: M. A final mark reads: U.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of SCM Corporation, Business Equipment Division
- ca 1960s
- ID Number
- MA.335382
- catalog number
- 335382
- accession number
- 318944
- maker number
- none
- Object Name
- calculating machine model
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18.8 cm x 12.3 cm x 30.5 cm; 7 13/32 in x 4 27/32 in x 12 in
- place made
- United States: New York
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Calculating Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690733
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0faa-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
