Burroughs Automatic Total Tax Machine, a Bookkeeping Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1934
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs
notes: label: Description
content: This version of the Burroughs Class 7 bookkeeping machine was designed specifically for calculating taxes and payrolls. It has a gray metal case. At the front are two sets of digit keys, one gray and one white, as well as several function keys on the left. These keys are in two rows. To the left is a key mounted so that the stem moves horizontally.
label: Description
content: Behind and above the digit keys is a space bar and four rows of a QWERTY typewriter keyboard. The “uppercase” symbols are not conventional. Behind the typewriter keyboard is a lever that can be set for any of seven registers. At the center behind the typing keys is a lever that can be set at “INACTIVE” or at any number from 9 to 15. Behind this is a wide carriage and a complex mechanism. The motor is under the machine.
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content: The machine has no stand.
label: Description
content: Marks on the front and the back read: Burroughs. A red tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #203. A metal tag at the front of the machine has the serial number: A3857. This suggests a 1934 date. A mark on the gray plastic cover reads: Burroughs B. A mark on a white paper tag attached to the machine reads: For information (/) regarding this machine (/) see (/) H. Brown Room 587.
label: Description
content: A card in the accession file indicates that this is a Style 72 07 22 machine.
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content: References:
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content: Accession file.
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content: <I>Price and Style Guide for Class 7 Machines</I>, Burroughs Corporation Papers, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Bookkeeping 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: 1982.0794.38
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.38
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bookkeeping machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.5 cm x 73 cm x 66 cm; 14 3/8 in x 28 3/4 in x 25 31/32 in