Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1915
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard printing adding machine is manually operated. It has a metal frame painted black, with a metal keyboard painted green. There are five columns of black and white color-coded plastic keys. The non-add, total, and subtotal keys are on the left. The repeat key is on the right. In front of the keys is a row of six number dials, under glass. These indicate the sum of numbers added. The crank on the right side operates the machine.
label: Description
content: Behind the keyboard is the black ribbon, printing mechanism, narrow carriage, and paper tape. The tape is visible to the operator, unlike that on earlier Burroughs machines. There are six digit type bars with an additional type bar right of these that prints symbols.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on the back of the keyboard, with a line drawn through the letter “O”: BURROUGHS. It is marked on a metal tag at the base of the front: 3-283826. It is marked on the back (partly obscured): BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE CO.
label: Description
content: Compare 323588. Burroughs acquired the Pike Adding Machine Company of Orange, New Jersey, in 1909. This machine is very similar to the Pike.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Adding Machines
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Science & Mathematics
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Western Union Telegraph Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0192.01
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0192.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0192
label: maker number
content: 3-283826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.5 cm x 28.5 cm x 50 cm; 10 1/32 in x 11 7/32 in x 19 11/16 in