Marchant Model 10EFA Calculating Machine, Figuremaster
date: label: date made
content: 1951
name: label: maker
content: Marchant Calculating Machine Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard non-printing electric proportional gear calculating machine has a blue metal frame with a black carriage. It has ten columns of green and white all-plastic number keys. At the base of each column is a gray tabulator set key. These keys are numbered from 1 on the right to 10 on the left.
label: Description
content: Right of the number keys are a small switch; line up, division, and stop keys; subtraction and addition bars; a non-shift key, a repeat key, and a negative multiplication bar; and two carriage shift keys. In front of these are clearance keys for the tab set, the keyboard, and the dials. Right of these is a column of ten keys for automatic multiplication. Odd digit keys are concave. Above the number keys is a row of ten windows to show a number set up.
label: Description
content: Behind this register is a movable carriage with an 20-window result register and an ten-window revolution register. The registers on the carriage have reversible decimal markers. The motor is at the back of the machine, inside the case. The machine has four rubber feet.
label: Description
content: Marks on the sides and back of the machine read: MARCHANT. A metal tag attached to the bottom reads: 10EFA-351117 A piece of tape atop the machine reads: 2-130. Remnants of a black plastic label attached to the bottom of the machine read: Figuremaster.
label: Description
content: According to the donor, a collector of calculating machines, this example was manufactured in 1951 and originally sold for $787.00.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Oakland
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William L. Jackson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335420
label: catalog number
content: 335420
label: accession number
content: 319049
label: maker number
content: 10EFA-351117
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 41 cm x 41 cm; 8 9/32 in x 16 5/32 in x 16 5/32 in