Ensign Calculating Machine Component
name: label: maker
content: Ensign Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: These objects were collected by Brooklyn high school teacher and historian of mathematics L. Leland Locke and held by the Museums of the Peaceful Arts in New York City before coming to the Smithsonian. The steel component has nine numeral wheels arranged on a shaft, which in turn is linked to a larger shaft, various springs, and larger discs.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Museum of the Peaceful Arts, 1927, vol. 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of L. Leland Locke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3003.053
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3003
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3003.053
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.8 cm x 33 cm x 10 cm; 3 27/32 in x 13 in x 3 15/16 in