Controller Calculating Machine Component
name: label: maker
content: Controller Company
notes: label: Description
content: This object was collected by Brooklyn high school teacher and historian of mathematics L. Leland Locke and held by the Museums of the Peaceful Arts in New York City before coming to the Smithsonian. The component consists of a frame supporting a shaft with ten gear wheels, a more complex mechanism, and a gear wheel that links to a crank with a black wooden handle. At the top of the more complex mechanism is a cam-shaped piece marked "Add." and "Mult."
label: Description
content: Compare to 311948.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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 L. Leland Locke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3003.003
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3003
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3003.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ferrous metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.7 cm x 29 cm x 8 cm; 5 13/32 in x 11 13/32 in x 3 5/32 in