Object Details
- Pike Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This full-keyboard printing manually operated adding machine has eight columns of black and white color-coded keys. In back of each column of digit keys is a red key, which may be intended for zeroing the column. The machine has a metal case painted black, and is painted green under the keyboard. The total, which may have as many as nine digits, appears in a row of number dials at the front of the machine. Above the keyboard is a dial that records the number of items added. Behind the dial is the printing mechanism and a 30 cm. carriage (dimension without handles). Also present are a total key and various other unmarked levers and function keys. The operating crank is missing from the right side.
- The dial above the keyboard reads: PIKE ADDING MACHINE CO. ORANGE, N.J. A brass plaque on the back of the machine reads: MADE BY (/) PIKE ADDING MACHINE CO. (/) ORANGE, N.J., U.S.A. (/) STYLE E No. 2359. A brass plaque in front of the keyboard reads: PIKE ADDING MACHINERY ORANGE N.J. U.S.A. (/) CONCESSIONNAIRE EXCLUSIVE (/) STE. AN. DES APPAREILS DE CONTROLE ET DE COMPTE AUTOMATIQUE (/) AU CAPITAL DE [...] (/) 78 RUE REAUMUR PARIS.
- The Pike adding machine was first manufactured in 1904. In 1909 Burroughs Adding Machine Company purchased the company, and developed the machine into the Burroughs Class 3 and then the Class 300. Compare 1986.0192.01.
- According to Pike patents of 1903 and early 1904, the company was in St. Louis. Later in 1904, Pike Adding Machine Company is listed as in Orange, New Jersey.
- References:
- J. H. McCarthy, The American Digest of Business Machines, Chicago: American Exchange Service, 1924, p. 539.
- E. Martin, The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen), p. 152.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Victor Comptometer Corporation
- 1905-1909
- ID Number
- MA.323588
- catalog number
- 323588
- accession number
- 250163
- Object Name
- adding machine
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 32 cm x 40.5 cm x 49 cm; 12 19/32 in x 15 15/16 in x 19 9/32 in
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Orange
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690578
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-09ad-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
