Burroughs Series P Belt Drive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This Burroughs adding machine has largely steel parts, a metal bottom and keyboard painted brown, and white and tan square plastic keys. It has eight columns of keys, with nine keys in each column. In addition to the four labeled function keys, there are two function key stems with no covers. Numbers with up to eight digits, as well as one character, print. It has no case, and there are several loose pieces in the back of the machine.
label: Description
content: A red paper tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #219. With 1982.0794.43, this is model #219 from the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation. A metal tag at the front of the machine is marked: A3531-2.
label: Description
content: The Burroughs Series P was introduced in 1949, and this machine presumably dates from about that time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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 Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0794.42
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.42
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 22.6 cm x 34 cm; 7 15/32 in x 8 29/32 in x 13 3/8 in