Pamphlets, Calculating Machine Patents
date: label: date made
content: 1921-1962
name: label: maker
content: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
notes: label: Description
content: One important American manufacturer of calculating machines was the Marchant Calculating Machine Company, incorporated in Oakland, California, in 1913. Marchant not only manufactured calculating machines under that name, but acquired the Johnston Adding Machine Company in 1957. The following year, it merged with the Smith-Corona typewriter company to form Smith-Corona Marchant, Inc. This name was soon abbreviated to SCM.
label: Description
content: Not long after SCM left the electronic calculator business in the mid-1970s, it donated the company seal stamps and corporate papers of Marchant and the Marchant Division of SCM to the Smithsonian. These, along with trade literature and historical documents accumulated by Marchant, constitute acquisition 1979.3084.
label: Description
content: These patents sixty-one patents, often the original copieswith Patent Office seals, are stored in cover the years 1921 to 1962. They are arranged chronologically.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of SCM Corporation, SCM Business Equipment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3084.010
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3084.010
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pamphlets, Group Of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 20.5 cm x 30.6 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 1/16 in x 12 1/16 in