TASCO Adder
date: label: date made
content: 1945
name: label: distributor
content: Tavella Sales Company
label: maker
content: Borg-Warner Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This stylus-operated notched band adder has eight columns. A sliding plate atop the machine allows one to adjust the columns for subtraction. A blue-black plastic case holds a metal stylus. Accompanying the instrument are “Instructions for Operating the Pocket Arithmometer.”
label: Description
content: The TASCO pocket arithmometer closely resembles an adder sold by the Gray Arithmometer Company of Ithaca, New York, in the early 20th century. It was distributed by the Morse Chain Company of Ithaca in the 1920s. In 1929, the Morse Chain Company became part of Borg-Warner Corporation. Distribution of the adder soon shifted to the Tavella Sales Company of New York City.
label: Description
content: Compare to 1986.0663.01.
label: Description
content: References: P. Kidwell, “Adders Made and Used in the United States,” <I>Rittenhouse</I>, 8, (1994), pp. 78-96.
label: Description
content: Advertisements in <I>Popular Mechanics</I> 83 (March 1945), p. 178, (April 1945): 180, and (May, 1945), p. 178.
label: Description
content: <I>Popular Science</I> 153 (January 1948), p. 34.
label: Description
content: Utility Supply Company, <I>Office Supply Catalog</I> (Chicago, 1946), p. 285.
label: Description
content: <I>New York Times</I>, October 30, 1949, p. S12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Ithaca
label: place distributed
content: United States: New York, New York City
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 Mr. S.H. Oliver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.313629
label: catalog number
content: 313629
label: accession number
content: 189330
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 7.6 cm x 13.7 cm; 3/16 in x 3 in x 5 13/32 in