Friden Model 1150 Desktop Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1968
name: label: maker
content: Friden, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This electronic calculator was introduced by the Friden Division of Singer Company in 1968. It was the first printing calculator sold by that company. The instrument has an array of nine square plastic keys for entering digits as well as a zero bar and a decimal point bar. Right of the digit keys are addition and subtraction keys. Left are other function keys. Above these keys are memory, clearance and duplication keys. At the top left is a place for a paper tape.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front of the calculator reads: Friden. Another mark there reads: 1150 ELECTRONIC PRINTING CALCULATOR. According to the accession file, the machine has serial number 532. According to contemporary newspaper advertisements, it sold for $1,495 at a time when rival electronic printing calculators cost between $2,250 and $3,800.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession File.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, March 19 1968, p. 23.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>New York Times</I>, February 27 1968, p. 68.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Leandro
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Desktop Electronic Calculators
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Singer Company, Friden Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.334381
label: catalog number
content: 334381
label: accession number
content: 313935
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 1/2 in x 16 in x 21 1/4 in; 102.87 cm x 40.64 cm x 53.975 cm