Record Model 1 Calculating Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: maker
content: Oehlmann & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This German key-set manually operated stepped drum calculating machine has nine columns of black plastic keys, with nine keys in each column. The rods between each row of keys, colored black on one side and white on the other, serve as decimal markers. The operating crank angles out of the right side at the front. A lever near it is marked Hand in one position and Automatisch in the other. Above the keyboard is a row of nine windows to indicate digits entered. On the left side is a lever. It is marked Subt.& Div. in one position and Add.&Mult. in the other.
label: Description
content: In back is a carriage with two rows of windows. The front row holds eight digits and the back row 13. On the right side of the carriage, a zeroing knob is next to the first row, and a space for a zeroing knob is next to the second. At the back of the machine are thirteen metal columns. Nine of these have stepped drums on them. The drums are cutaway, somewhat like those on a TIM machine.
label: Description
content: A mark to the right of the keyboard reads: Universal (/) Rechenmaschine (/) Record (/) Fabrikanten: H.Oehlmann & Co. (/) Berlin S.0.16. A mark on the front reads: Bureaumaschinen-Gesellschaft (/) Bernhard Behr & Co. (/) Dresden-A und Berlin S.0.16. At the back left under the top of the carriage is the mark: 434. A fourth mark, painted on a bar on the carriage, is:27-65. This is a number of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts in New York. This particular machine came from the collection of L. Leland Locke.
label: Description
content: The Record was introduced in 1913 in Oldenburg, and the manufacturer moved to Berlin the following year.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: E. Martin, <I>The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen)</I>, trans. P. A. Kidwell and M. R. Williams, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992, pp. 274–276.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
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: MA.311949
label: accession number
content: 155183
label: maker number
content: 434
label: catalog number
content: 311949
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.8 cm x 36.5 cm x 37 cm; 2 11/16 in x 14 3/8 in x 14 9/16 in