Addiator Universal, Standard Model
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: distributor
content: Harrison Home Products Corporation
label: maker
content: Addiator G.m.b.H.
notes: label: Description
content: This metal notched band adder has a metal stylus. The front of the instrument is painted green, the back, black. One can enter numbers up to six digits long. The clearing bar is at the top. The case is clear plastic. For instructions, see 1988.0807.07.
label: Description
content: The firm of Carl Keubler produced adders under the name Addiator in Berlin (later West Berlin) from 1920 until the 1980s. This is one of three versions of the Addiator in the Smithsonian collections. It was given to the Museum by the machinist and museum specialist George A. Norton, Jr. Norton used the device to do routine addition, subtraction, and multiplication until he acquired an electronic calculator.
label: Description
content: Reference: Martin Reese, <I>Historische Buerowelt</I>, 43 (September 1995).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
label: place distributed
content: United States: New Jersey, Harrison
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 George A. Norton, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0807.04
label: accession number
content: 1988.0807
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0807.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 5.5 cm x 17 cm; 1/4 in x 2 5/32 in x 6 11/16 in