Wizard Calculating Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: distributor
content: Thoresen, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This notched band adder has a metal front and a black plastic back. There are eight bracket-shaped columns, nine display windows, a zeroing bar across the top, and a metal stylus that fits in the side (part of the plastic holder has broken off). Between each of the columns there are two rows of numbers, one for addition and the other for subtraction. The adder comes in a blue plastic case.
label: Description
content: According to documentation received with the device, it was distributed by Thoresen, Inc., of New York, N.Y. It is described as “the new 1959 WIZARD with the Magic Reckoner.” The Magic Reckoner was a multiplication table. The machine was made in West Germany.
label: Description
content: This example was given to the Museum by Joan Pearson Watkins, the wife of Smithsonian curator C. Malcolm Watkins. She held various honorary curatorial positions at the National Museum of American History from the 1960s through the 1980s. Compare this object to MA.336448 and 2013.0197.01.
label: Description
content: References: “Wizard Calculating machine,” 1987.0787.02.
label: Description
content: <I>Popular Science</I>, vol. 174, February, 1959, p. 18. Not identical to adder shown in that advertisement.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place distributed
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: Adder
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Joan Pearson Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0787.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0787
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0787.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 10.5 cm x 15.5 cm; 3/16 in x 4 1/8 in x 6 3/32 in