Powers Tabulating Equipment Component
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914
name: label: maker
content: James Powers
notes: label: Description
content: This component consists of two aluminum pieces that hold ten parallel flexible rods. It may have served as a flexible connector for Powers Accounting Machine Company equipment.
label: Description
content: A mark stamped on one of the pieces reads: 1---U. Several letters scratched on the other piece read: 1Y J-POWERS. A mark scratched on the other side of this piece reads: 1914.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: William W. Lasker, "Flexible-Connection Box," U.S. Patent 1,311,565, June 24, 1919.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Tabulating Equipment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thor Dockweiler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0871.02
label: accession number
content: 1991.0871
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0871.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tabulating equipment component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .3 cm x 8 cm x 18 cm; 1/8 in x 3 5/32 in x 7 3/32 in