Allen Wales Model 9E Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: Allen Wales Adding Machine Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard printing electric adding machine has a steel frame painted black (and green under the keyboard), and eight columns of black and white color-coded plastic keys. A green clearance key and subtraction and addition bars are right of the keyboard, as well as a repeat lever. Above the keyboard is a row of eight number dials under glass that shows the total (this is called a visible adding dial). Behind the dials are a non-print lever and total-subtotal lever on the right and a non-add lever on the left. Behind these is the printing mechanism and a 31-cm. movable carriage. There is a two-colored ribbon. Under the printing mechanism is the motor. Part of a roll of 6 cm. (2 1/2”) paper tape fits in the printing mechanism behind the carriage. The carriage has rubber handles, and the machine has four rubber feet.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on the front: DESK MODEL (/) ALLEN 9 WALES. It is marked at the base of the front with serial number: 9E30958. It is marked on the back: ALLEN WALES ADDING MACHINE CORP. (/) ITHACA. New YORK (/) MADE IN U.S.A.
label: Description
content: The Allen Wales adding machine was a product of a company formed in 1926 by the merger of the Wales Adding Machine Company and the Allen Corporation. That firm would be acquired by National Cash Register in 1944.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: <I>Office Machine Research Inc.</I>, December, 1938, section 3.21, Allen Wales. Date suggested by documentation on NCR machines.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Ithaca
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0238.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0238.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: steel (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 cm x 41.8 cm x 42.5 cm; 10 5/8 in x 16 15/32 in x 16 23/32 in