UNIVAC Employee Badge
date: label: Date made
content: 1954
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The badge is white with a blue border and a photograph of John Fogarty (which resembles a mug shot) at the center. Back text surrounds the photograph. At the top is "Remington Rand Inc." It reads "Eckert" and "Mauchly" on either side of the photograph and "Division" at the bottom.
label: Description
content: The badge belonged to John Fogarty who worked as part of the Eckert-Mauchly division of Remington Rand during the 1950s. He was part UNIVAC team starting 1954. His job was the checkout of the Punched-Card-to-Magnetic-Tape Converters (CTC) after they were assembled and later field maintenance.
label: Description
content: The badge shows signs of age. It is cracked and has been repaired in two different areas. The hole to attach a string is broken. The edges of the badge are discolored and the entire badge is warped. The photograph is faded so that the lower half of John Fogarty's face is barely distinguishable.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John D. Fogarty
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0008.01
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0008.01
label: accession number
content: 2007.0008
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Badge, Employee
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 in x 1/8 in; 6.35 cm x 5.08 cm x .3175 cm