Stima Adding machine
date: label: date made
content: 1935
name: label: maker
content: Steinmann, Albert
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld instrument has nine parallel brass rods with holes in them. The holes in each rod are numbered from 1 to 9. Numbers are entered by pulling down rods with a stylus. The total appears in a set of nine holes at the bottom of the instrument. A lever on the side may be set so that a number entered is recorded in another set of nine holes that are immediately below the columns. The machine also has a carry mechanism; a white plastic zeroing button that is pulled out to zero the result register; a brown plastic button that is pushed to zero the entry register; a white plastic button used for subtraction; and decimal markers. Instructions are stored with the object and its leather-covered velvet-lined case. The stylus is missing.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Ernst Martin, <I>Die Rechenmaschinen</I>, second edition, p. 454.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland: Neuchâtel, La Chaux-de-Fonds
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: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Victor Comptometer Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.323617
label: accession number
content: 250163
label: catalog number
content: 323617
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (?) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 14 cm x 17.5 cm; 1 9/16 in x 5 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in