Sinclair Cambridge Scientific Handheld Electronic Calculator
Object Details
- Sinclair Radionics Ltd.
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a white plastic case and nineteen rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a clear/clear entry key, and an exchange key. These keys also can be shifted to represent trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions, memory, square roots, natural logarithms, exponents, inverses, and pi. To the right on the top row of keys is an on/off switch.
- Text behind the keyboard reads: sinclair (/) Cambridge Scientific. Behind this is an eight-digit purple LED display.
- The back of the calculator has a compartment for two AAA batteries. A mark on the lid to this compartment reads: Sinclair (/) MADE IN ENGLAND.
- Reference:
- [Advertisement], Chicago Tribune, December 8, 1974, p. E30. Sinclair scientific calculator advertised as on sale for $89.95.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 1974
- ID Number
- 1987.0435.18
- catalog number
- 1987.0435.18
- accession number
- 1987.0435
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 2 in x 4 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 5.08 cm x 11.1125 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_214342
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-eb67-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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