Burroughs Class 16 Adding Machine Section
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This model of an adding machine section has a metal frame, mechanism, paper guide, and motor cover. There is a single column of nine black plastic keys, with mechanism, motor, and stand below, and section of carriage and printing mechanism at the back. The keyboard is covered with green felt. To the right of the digit keys is a red “ERROR” key, with an operating bar to its right. The red clearance key is at the top of the column of keys, and a second clearance key is left of it. The dash pot in the mechanism has a clear glass cylinder. The right side is glass and the left side is open. The hole in the glass for an operating handle is empty. Two number dials are at the front of the machine.
label: Description
content: The Burroughs Class 16 was introduced in 1926. The catalog card and a photograph sent with the object indicate that this is Burroughs Patent Department model 267.
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: 1982.0794.67
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.67
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine section
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 59 cm x 35 cm x 55 cm; 23 7/32 in x 13 25/32 in x 21 21/32 in