Model Relating to Powers Tabulating Equipment
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: James Powers
notes: label: Description
content: The wooden base of this model holds a metal container with a paper punch card that fits in it. A metal piece swings from a crosspiece above the card. The base also holds supports for another metal crosspiece. Three metal pieces rotate with this crosspiece. The base also holds two larger, facing metal rectangles. One rectangle has a plastic piece screwed to the top.
label: Description
content: A mark on the right side of the punch card reads: POWERS ACCOUNTING MACHINE COMPANY (/) ACCOUNTS PAYABLE. A mark on the left side of the punch card reads: P1384. The punched holes are round.
label: Description
content: A piece of paper pasted to the top of the base reads: This model represents my new (/) invention of a tabulator in connec- (/) tion with perforated cards, elimina- (/) ting a pin box of 540 pins and sub- (/) stitution forty-five levers instead. (/) Also eliminating connection box, with (/) both of these improvements the speed (/) will be doubled and such machine will (/) be small in size, cheaper to build, (/) more flexible and easier to manipulate. (/) August 19, 1924 (/) James Powers. Also signing the document were Fred J. Dole, Charles E. Whiteman and Achilles Rovegno, all of whom had associations with Francis H. Richards of New York, Powers’s patent attorney.
label: Description
content: No patent corresponding to this invention has been found.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Tabulating Equipment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thor Dockweiler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0871.03
label: accession number
content: 1991.0871
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0871.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tabulating equipment model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 22.9 cm x 21.6 cm; 5 1/8 in x 9 1/32 in x 8 1/2 in