Burroughs Class 5 Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard non-printing manual adding machine is painted black with a green keyboard. It has black and white octagonal plastic keys. The nine columns of keys have nine keys in each column. Odd-numbered keys are concave, even-numbered ones flat. Complementary digits are indicated as well as numbers. Ten windows at the front show the sum of numbers as the numbers are entered. A single key in the upper left corner controls the numeral wheel seen through the tenth window. The machine has two legs at the back which hold it up at an angle. There is a black plastic cover. Compare to Burroughs calculator.
label: Description
content: The Burroughs calculator was sold as the Burroughs Class 5 from 1918 into the 1960s.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: <I> American Digest of Business Machines</I>, 1924, pp. 70-71.
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 Western Union Telegraph Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3039.01
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3039.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 24.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 6 11/16 in x 9 21/32 in x 12 in