Box for Cylinder Recordings or Dictaphone Reels, with Lid Lined with Blueprint of Hollerith Tabulating Equipment
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: The base of the box has sixty-seven spindles, possibly for cylinder recordings or Dictaphone reels, There are four rows of ten spindles interspersed with nine rows of three. Fitting over this is a lid (with sides), which is lined with blueprints relating to tabulating equipment for the 12th U.S. Census (1900). The object is roughly made.
label: Description
content: A mark on the blueprint reads: Tabulating Machine Co (/) Washington, D.C. (/) June, 1900.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard Hollerith Jr. for the Herman Hollerith Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.3037.05
label: nonaccession number
content: 1995.3037
label: catalog number
content: 1995.3037.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 cm x 45.6 cm x 27.4 cm; 7 7/8 in x 17 15/16 in x 10 25/32 in