Rheinmetall Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1953
name: label: maker
content: Rheinische Metallwaaren- und Maschinenfabrik Sömmerda Aktiengesellschaft
notes: label: Description
content: This ten-key printing electric adding machine has a greenish gray metal case. Nine gray plastic numeral keys are arranged in a block, with the 0 bar below them. Three black keys are on the left, three black keys are right of the number keys, and a bar and key are on the far right. Above the keyboard is a place indicator and above this, a number indicator. The machine has a wide movable carriage at the back that would hold 13”-wide documents. An attachment can hold rolls of paper tape. A serrated edge is above the platen to tear off the paper tape. The motor is below the carriage and the paper tape holder. A black cord, with another cord plugged into it, extends from the back.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked above the keyboard and on the carriage: Rheinmetall. It has serial number: 168241. It has a red tag attached to it that reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #298. This is a tag of the Burroughs Corporation Patent Department, the source of the machine.
label: Description
content: The German firm of Rheinmetall Metallwaren und Machinenfabrik introduced a stepped drum calculating machine in 1924. In 1932 the company began making ten-key adding machines in several styles. This is a postwar example.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Ernst Martin, <I>Die Rechenmaschinen und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte</I>, pp. 370-372, 448-452.
label: Description
content: Fédération Nationale des Chambres Syndicales de la Mécanographie, <I>Fédération de Reprise officielle des Machines à Ecrire, Machines à Calculer . . .</I>, Lyon, 1970, p. 81.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Thuringia, Sömmerda
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Adding Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0794.75
label: maker number
content: 168241?
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.75
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.5 cm x 46 cm x 49.5 cm; 11 5/8 in x 18 1/8 in x 19 1/2 in