SCM Marchant Model 8CD Calculating Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1964
name: label: maker
content: SCM Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard, non-printing proportional gear electric calculating machine has a gray and tan frame with eight columns of color-coded gray and tan keys. Above the keyboard, a row of eight dials indicates the number entered. To the right of the number keys are division, stop, subtraction, short cut multiplication, addition, and multiplication bars. Also included are two carriage shift keys and three clearance keys.
label: Description
content: Behind the entry register is a movable carriage with a 16-digit result register and an eight-digit revolution register. To set decimal places, one uses sliding decimal markers. A mark on the carriage reads: SCM MARCHANT. The serial number, indicated on the bottom of the machine, is 8CD - 705041.
label: Description
content: The donor was a certified public accountant who had a collection of calculating machines. The date of manufacture (1964) and original cost ($475) are provided by him.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William L. Jackson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335426
label: accession number
content: 319049
label: maker number
content: 8CD - 705041
label: catalog number
content: 335426
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 42 cm x 41.5 cm; 8 21/32 in x 16 17/32 in x 16 11/32 in