Mercedes-Euklid Model 38MS Calculating Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Mercedes-Bureau-Maschinen-GES.m.b.H.
notes: label: Description
content: This German full-keyboard electric proportional rod calculating machine is black, painted green under the keyboard. It has 16 columns of black, white, and red octagonal plastic keys. The machine records multipliers of up to eight digits and products of up to 16 digits. Keys for correction, division and multiplication are left of the keyboard, and keys for subtraction and addition are to the right. The carriage at the back of the machine has four rows of number dials. One row is covered at any given time. In back of the topmost row of number dials is a set of thumbscrews. The motor is in the back of the machine’s case, with a rubber cord extending from it.
label: Description
content: A mark on the right front reads: MERCEDES- (/) EUKLID (/) Mod.38MS. A mark on the back reads: Mercedes Euklid. A red tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #146. It was model #146 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation. It has serial number: 62941. The serial number dates the machine from after 1939. It was manufactured until about 1953.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: <I>American Office Machines Research Service</I>, vol. 3, section 4.3 (September 1938), p. 49.
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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. 72.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
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 Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0794.25
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.25
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
label: maker number
content: 62941
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: steel (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.5 cm x 39 cm x 37 cm; 7 9/32 in x 15 11/32 in x 14 9/16 in