Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1920
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard printing manual adding machine has a metal frame painted black, a metal keyboard painted green, and nine columns of black and white color-coded plastic keys. A glass window at the front of the machine reveals nine number dials. A crank fits into the right side. Behind the keyboard is a 12” carriage with a narrow paper tape and a bell. The key tops for the five function keys are loose or missing.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on a metal tag attached to the front: #3-674863. It is marked behind the keyboard: Burroughs. There is a line through the “o” in this mark.
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 Elbert O. Schlotzhauer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335029
label: accession number
content: 312145
label: maker number
content: #3-674863
label: catalog number
content: 335029
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: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 30 cm x 49.5 cm; 8 1/16 in x 11 13/16 in x 19 1/2 in