Burroughs Series P Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1949
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard printing electric adding machine has a black metal case, black and white color-coded round plastic keys, a rubber carriage, rubber feet, and a metal paper tape holder at the back. There is a hole for a handle but no handle. There are ten columns of keys, with nine keys in each column, as well as a column with five function keys and a large “+” bar.
label: Description
content: A red paper tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #208. A metal tag attached to the keyboard reads: 139-243. The machine is marked on the front: Burroughs. A white paper tag attached to the object reads: STY 10 (/) TALLY ROLL (/) MACH (/) TAG (/) 139-243. A metal tag attached to the object reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation.
label: Description
content: This example was #208 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation. The Burroughs Series P was introduced in 1949, and this machine presumably dates from about that time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0794.39
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.39
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.2 cm x 48 cm x 45.7 cm; 10 5/16 in x 18 29/32 in x 18 in