Wales Model 10 Series Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Adder Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard printing manually operated adding machine has a metal frame painted black with glass right and left sides and front and a glass panel in front of the number dials behind the keyboard. Below the nine columns of black and white color-coded plastic keys, the keyboard below is covered with green felt. A total key is to the left of the keyboard, a red plastic error key and a key stem areabove the number keys, and non-print and non-add keys are behind the numeral dials. Divisions for U.S. currency are indicated between the dials. The metal operating crank is on the right. At the back of the machine is the printing mechanism and a 13-inch (33 cm.) movable carriage. The machine is extremely heavy.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front reads: WALES. A mark above the keyboard reads: WALES [/] Visible [/] Adding [/] and Listing [/] Machine [/] THE ADDER MACHINE COMPANY [/] WILKES-BARRE, PA.,U.S.A. A list of patents includes the first date DEC. 1. 1903, and the last date, NOV. 23. 1909.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.323593.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: J. H. McCarthy, <I>American Digest of Business Machines</I>, Chicago, 1924, pp. 544-545.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre
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 Gene Barber
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.333753
label: catalog number
content: 333753
label: accession number
content: 301887
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 cm x 33 cm x 52 cm; 11 13/32 in x 13 in x 20 15/32 in