Burroughs Series P Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard printing adding machine has a steel mechanism and off-white and gray-brown plastic keys. There are ten columns of color-coded digit keys. Right of these is a column of function keys. On the far right are addition and subtraction bars. The ribbon, printing mechanism, and narrow carriage are at the back of the machine, with a serrated edge for tearing the paper tape. The machine has no case. Wiring is present but no cord. The machine has 11 type bars.
label: Description
content: A red paper tag attached to the object reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #345. A metal tag reads: 3531-2. Another metal tag reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation.
label: Description
content: This object was model #345 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0794.87
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.87
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 24 cm x 32.5 cm; 8 1/16 in x 9 7/16 in x 12 25/32 in