Lightning Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1948
name: label: maker
content: Lightning Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This small seven-wheeled stylus-operated non-printing adding machine has a metal case painted green and covered with felt on the back. It sits in a brown bakelite stand. A stylus fits in the ten holes in each wheel. Placing the stylus in the proper hole and and rotating it enters a digit. The sum appears in seven windows above the holes. The two rightmost and the two leftmost wheels are brass. The three middle ones are steel. The device has no zeroing mechanism and the stylus is missing.
label: Description
content: The instrument is marked on the front: THE (/) Lightning (/) ADDING (/) MACHINE (/) CO. (/) LOS ANGELES (/) CALIF. U.S.A.. It is marked with intertwined letters on the back of the stand: GIM.
label: Description
content: This machine is from the calculating machine collection of Myron R. Smith.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: <I>Office Appliances</I>, January, 1948, vol. 87, p. 225 - sold for $12.95 - also March, 1948, vol. 87, p. 208.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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 Myron R. Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0325.02
label: accession number
content: 1989.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0325.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine in stand
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 36 cm x 11 cm; 1 9/16 in x 14 3/16 in x 4 11/32 in