Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard printing manually operated machine has a metal frame painted black, with the area under the keyboard green. Each of the nine columns of color-coded plastic keys has nine keys. On the left of the number keys are subtotal and total keys. Above these are non-add, non-print, and repeat keys. A crank for operating the machine is on the right side. The sum appears in a row of nine windows at the front of the machine.
label: Description
content: At the back is the visible printing mechanism and a 30.8 cm. carriage (this dimension does not include the carriage handles). The carriage can be shifted, is wide enough for single sheets stationery, and has a counter that rings a bell at zero. A serrated edge tears the paper tape. The paper holder presently has no paper. The ribbon is stored in separate canisters.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked behind the keyboard: Burroughs. It is marked at the front: 3-899304. It is marked on the back: Burroughs (/) THIS MACHINE PROTECTED BY U.S. AND FOREIGN PATENTS. The date was given by the lender when the machine came to the Smithsonian Institution in 1924, and agrees with other listings. The object recently was donated to the Institution by Unisys Corporation.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.335029, MA.335030, and 1986.0192.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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 Unisys Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.308346
label: catalog number
content: 308346
label: maker number
content: 3-899304
label: accession number
content: 2011.0264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.8 cm x 41.5 cm x 49 cm; 8 31/32 in x 16 11/32 in x 19 9/32 in