Comptometer Model E Section
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a model of a section of a full-keyboard non-printing adding machine. There are four columns of keys. The rightmost column has nine octagonal white plastic keys. Left of this is a column with white 1, 8, and 9 keys. Left of this is a column with black plastic 1 and 8 keys. The leftmost column has nine black keys. Keys for odd digits are concave, and those for even digits are flat. The three number wheels are at the front of the model, in front of the three rightmost columns of keys. The machine has a handle on the right.
label: Description
content: The machine is stamped on the right side at the back: 54005. A metal tag attached behind the keys reads: TRADE COMPTOMETER MARK. It also reads: OCT.7.13
label: Description
content: The sectional Model E Comptometer is made up of regular Model E production parts. It was made to be used to instruct adjusters and assemblers in the factory and servicemen in the Repairmen’s School and Sales Offices throughout the United States.
label: Description
content: The machine came to the Smithsonian from the collections of Victor Comptometer Corporation, the successor firm to Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession Journal 1991.3107.06.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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 Victor Comptometer Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.323641
label: accession number
content: 250163
label: catalog number
content: 323641
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine section
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 cm x 15.5 cm x 34.5 cm; 5 29/32 in x 6 3/32 in x 13 19/32 in