Ve-Po-Ad Adder
date: label: date made
content: 1937
label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: distributor
content: Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Corporation
label: maker
content: Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This black and gold notched band adder comes in a maroon cloth-covered cardboard notebook with a rusting stylus. It has eight columns of digits, and nine windows for displaying results. The narrow zeroing rod is at the top. With the object is a piece of the wrapping in which the adder was sent, showing the postage and date mailed.
label: Description
content: With MA.323626, this object is F&T 43 (1&2) from the collection of Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company.
label: Description
content: The VE-PO-AD (Vest Pocket Adder) was sold by Reliable Typewriter and Adding Machine Corporation of Chicago from at least 1924 through at least 1940.
label: Description
content: References: <I>Typewriter Topics</I>, 57 (July 1924) p. 80.
label: Description
content: <I>Popular Science Monthly</I>, 126 (January 1933) p. 107.
label: Description
content: <I>Popular Mechanics</I>, 73 (January 1940) p. 127A, (February 1940) p. 151A, (March, 1940) p. 123A.
label: Description
content: P. Kidwell, "Adders Made and Used in the United States," <I>Rittenhouse</I>, 1994, 8:78-96.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: place distributed
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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 Victor Comptometer Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.323627
label: catalog number
content: 323627
label: accession number
content: 250163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .8 cm x 8.3 cm x 12.6 cm; 5/16 in x 3 9/32 in x 4 31/32 in