Sinclair Cambridge Scientific Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1974
name: label: maker
content: Sinclair Radionics Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a white plastic case and nineteen rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a clear/clear entry key, and an exchange key. These keys also can be shifted to represent trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions, memory, square roots, natural logarithms, exponents, inverses, and pi. To the right on the top row of keys is an on/off switch.
label: Description
content: Text behind the keyboard reads: sinclair (/) Cambridge Scientific. Behind this is an eight-digit purple LED display.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a compartment for two AAA batteries. A mark on the lid to this compartment reads: Sinclair (/) MADE IN ENGLAND.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, December 8, 1974, p. E30. Sinclair scientific calculator advertised as on sale for $89.95.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Handheld Electronic Calculators
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John B. Priser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0435.18
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0435.18
label: accession number
content: 1987.0435
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 in x 4 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 5.08 cm x 11.1125 cm