Object Details
- James Powers
- Description
- This component consists of two aluminum pieces that hold ten parallel flexible rods. It may have served as a flexible connector for Powers Accounting Machine Company equipment.
- A mark stamped on one of the pieces reads: 1---U. Several letters scratched on the other piece read: 1Y J-POWERS. A mark scratched on the other side of this piece reads: 1914.
- Reference:
- William W. Lasker, "Flexible-Connection Box," U.S. Patent 1,311,565, June 24, 1919.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Thor Dockweiler
- ca 1914
- ID Number
- 1991.0871.02
- accession number
- 1991.0871
- catalog number
- 1991.0871.02
- Object Name
- tabulating equipment component
- Physical Description
- aluminum (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .3 cm x 8 cm x 18 cm; 1/8 in x 3 5/32 in x 7 3/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Tabulating Equipment
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_904250
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-6ec0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
