Friden Model SRQ 10 Calculating Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1965
name: label: maker
content: The Singer Company. Friden Division
notes: label: Description
content: As early as 1952, the Friden Calculating Machine Company produced a calculating machine that would find the square root of a number entered by simply pushing a key. In 1962 the firm introduced this machine, which would find squares of numbers as well as square roots. It was manufactured until 1965.
label: Description
content: The full-keyboard electric non-printing stepped drum calculating machine has a metal frame painted tan and ten columns of light tan and brown plastic number keys, with a brown key at the bottom of each column. The keys at the bottom of the columns are numbered, from left to right, 0 9 9 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5. These keys are used to set the decimal point in a number whose root is to be taken, and to begin the taking of the root. Metal rods between the columns of keys and under the keyboard turn to indicate decimal places in ordinary arithmetic.
label: Description
content: On the right are two columns of function bars. On the left is a register for recording multipliers, with nine light tan keys and a zero bar for entering numbers. Around these keys are three levers and four function keys.
label: Description
content: Behind the number keys is a movable carriage with an 11-digit revolution register and a 21-digit result register. White plastic buttons above the result register rotate to set up numbers. Ten numbered buttons are under the revolution register, spaced between the digits. The clearing button is marked C. Zeroing knobs for the registers are on the right of the carriage. All three registers have sliding decimal markers. The base of the machine is covered with fiber. It has a black cord.
label: Description
content: The sides, back, and front of the machine are marked: FRIDEN. Above this mark is a square-root sign. A superscript 2 is to the right of it. A mark on the bottom reads: MODEL [/] SRQ 10. Another mark there reads: SERIAL S2000. The serial number under the word SERIAL has been effaced.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Division files.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Leandro
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 The Singer Company, Friden Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.334382
label: catalog number
content: 334382
label: accession number
content: 313935
label: maker number
content: S2000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fiber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.5 cm x 47 cm x 37 cm; 8 27/32 in x 18 1/2 in x 14 9/16 in