Object Details
- Remington Typewriter Company
- Wahl Adding Machine Company
- Description
- This is a combination adding machine and typewriter. The upstrike typewriter has a QWERTY keyboard with two shift keys, a shift lock key, a tab stop set key, a back spacer key, and a space bar. Behind each of the number keys is a bar which leads up to the adding attachment. Keys in a row across the bottom front set the place of the first digit in a number. The typewriter has two carriages. The front one carries a single register that indicates seven-digit totals. The carriage in back has tab-setting devices. Behind this is the ribbon, the rubber platen, and the paper tray. The machine has four rubber feet and two rubber handles for the platen.
- A mark on the paper tray reads: Remington (/)Adding and Subtracting (/) Typewriter. A mark at the bottom front reads: Remington Standard Typewriter No. 11. Marks on the adding mechanism below the front carriage and on the moveable register read: WAHL ADDING MACHINE Co. (/) CHICAGO. The adding mechanism is also marked: PATENTED IN (/) UNITED STATES AND (/) FOREIGN COUNTRIES. (/) DATES & NUMBERS ON (/) BACK COVER. OTHER (/) PATENTS PENDING. (/) DISCOUNT. Marks on the back of the adding attachment give American, French and British patents.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Atle Gjelsvik
- ca 1913
- ID Number
- 2000.0106.01
- accession number
- 2000.0106
- catalog number
- 2000.0106.01
- Object Name
- bookkeeping machine
- Physical Description
- rubber (overall material)
- iron (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 29.2 cm x 43 cm x 43 cm; 11 1/2 in x 16 15/16 in x 16 15/16 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Bookkeeping Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Business
- Record ID
- nmah_904253
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-6d55-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
