Gino’s Pocket Counter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
notes: label: Description
content: This small and very simple key-driven adding machine has three white plastic keys and a plastic frame. A window below the first key is marked cents. Pushing the plastic key above it rotates a disc below with the digits 0 to 9 on it by one unit. The window below the second key is marked dimes. Pushing this key rotates a disc similarly marked. The third window is marked dollars. There is a carry from the first column to the second and from the second to the third. Pushing the key above it rotates a disc marked from 0 to 19. Repeatedly pushing another white key on the right side zeroes the instrument.
label: Description
content: The instrument is marked: Gino’s {/} FREEDOM OF CHOICE. It is also marked: JAPAN. It is also marked: POCKET COUNTER.
label: Description
content: Judy Wallace, the mother of the donor, used it in and around Cockeysville, Md., in grocery stores during the 1970s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Adding Machines
label: See more items in
content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0180.09
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0180.09
label: accession number
content: 2009.0180
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 6.35 cm x 12.065 cm x .9525 cm