Remington Rand Bookkeeping Machine on Stand
date: label: date made
content: 1945-1955
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: After World War II, the office machine company Remington Rand invested heavily in the production of electronic computers, purchasing the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company in 1950 and delivering the first UNIVAC computer to the U.S. Bureau of the Census the next year. Meanwhile, Remington Rand continued to manufacture typewriters, adding machines, tabulating machines and products like this one, a bookkeeping machine.
label: Description
content: The gray machine rests on a gray metal stand. At the front is a row of plastic tabulator keys numbered from 1 to 10, and two switches. Behind these is a row of digit keys numbered 1 to 9 and then 0. Behind these are a space bar and a typewriter keyboard. The square plastic keys have what appear to be paper stickers on them indicating numbers and letters. Behind the keyboard are five levers. There are two registers, each of which accumulates 10-digit totals. The machine has a wide carriage, a two-colored ribbon, and an electric cord.
label: Description
content: A metal label on the object reads: REMINGTON RAND INC (/) MADE IN U S A..
label: Description
content: Remington Rand Corporation merged with the Sperry Corporation in 1955 to form Sperry Rand.
label: Description
content: Reference: Nancy Stern, <I>From ENIAC to UNIVAC: An Appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers</I>, Bedford, MA: Digital Equipment Corporation, 1981.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Elmira
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Bookkeeping Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edward S. Stein and Ann R. Stein in Memory of Lena Stein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.336181
label: catalog number
content: 336181
label: accession number
content: 1977.0191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bookkeeping machine on stand
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 100.5 cm x 89 cm x 61 cm; 39 9/16 in x 35 1/32 in x 24 1/32 in