Photograph, Marchant, A Cavalcade of Calculator Progress
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Marchant Calculators
notes: label: Description
content: This undated photograph illustrates "FAMOUS FIRSTS by Marchant Calculators, Inc. Oakland, California." These include the 1910 pinwheel calculating machine, the 1915 electrically powered calculating machine, the 1922 full-keyboard Marchant, the 1929 automatic electric rotary calculator, and the 1933 proportional gear machine. More recent firsts include the Marchant Deci-Magic with completely automatic decimals, and the Marchant Figuremaster.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of SCM Corporation, SCM Business Equipment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3084.146
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3084.146
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 25.5 cm; 8 9/32 in x 10 1/32 in