Nobility Handheld Electronic Calculator

Object Details

Cartron

Description

This credit card-sized, battery-operated handheld electronic calculator has a red plastic case and twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, and four memory keys, it has an off key, a square root key, a % key, a change sign key, and a clear key. An on/off switch is above the keyboard. A mark left of this reads: NOBILITY. The eight-digit LCD display is at the back. A mark in front of it reads: AUTO SHUT OFF. A mark on the metal back reads: CREDIT CARD ELECTRONIC (/) LIQUID CRYSTAL CALCULATOR (/) DC 2x1.5V – 0.0006W (/) SILVER OXIDE BATTERY (/) MADE IN HONG KONG.

The calculator has a brown plastic case. This also holds a paper warranty indicating that: This calculator is warranted to be free from defects in material and workmanship’ [sic] (/) for a period of one year till October 1983. Toward the bottom, the warranty reads: CARTRON, G.P.O. BOX 1883, HONG KONG.

Another paper sheet gives instructions in English, German, and French.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of John B. Priser

ca 1982

ID Number

1987.0435.28

accession number

1987.0435

catalog number

1987.0435.28

Object Name

electronic calculator

Physical Description

plastic (keys; carrying case material)

metal (case material)

paper (instructions; warranty material)

Measurements

overall: 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; .635 cm x 6.0325 cm x 8.89 cm

place made

China: Hong Kong

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Medicine and Science: Computers

Computers & Business Machines

Handheld Electronic Calculators

National Museum of American History

Record ID

nmah_214352

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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