Comptograph
date: label: date made
content: ca 1962
notes: label: Description
content: This ten-key printing electric adding machine has a grayish tan metal casing, a paper tape, and nine white plastic numeral keys, arranged on a block, with zero bar below. Above the number keys is a place indicator with clearance bar. Other keys are marked X, +, -, #, and *. One key is marked with a diamond. The machine has a tan cord, a paper tape 2 3/8” (6 cm.) wide, and a gray cover. The rightmost printwheel prints special characters. A latch releases the lid to reveal the mechanism, the platen, the printwheels, and the two-color ribbon. A serrated plastic edge helps users tear off the paper tape. A lever on the top left releases the tension on the platen.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on the back: Comptograph. It is marked on a metal tag on the inside right: Mod. 2205 No 125253. It is marked on a paper tag on the bottom: MADE IN (/) WESTERN GERMANY. It is marked on the plastic cover: LEON (/) Office Machines Co., Inc. (/) 625 F. Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. (/) REpublic 7-3145.
label: Description
content: The machine was used by the donor’s husband when he was working in lingerie manufacture in Richmond, Va.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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 Diane S. Landsberger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0636.01
label: maker number
content: 125253
label: accession number
content: 1992.0636
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0636.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 24.5 cm x 39 cm; 7 15/32 in x 9 21/32 in x 15 11/32 in