Sharp EL-8117K Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1977-1978
name: label: maker
content: Sharp Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a brown and white plastic case with a gold-colored metal inset. It has an array of twenty-two rounded square keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a % key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, three memory keys, a square root key, and a clear/clear entry key. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit green fluorescent display. A mark behind this reads: SHARP ELSI MATE (/) EL-8117K. An on/off button is on the left side and a jack for a power adapter along the back edge.
label: Description
content: At the top of the back of the calculator is a compartment for two AA batteries. A sticker on the inside of this compartment reads: 78104423. Text near the center of the back reads: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) EL-8117K. Further text reads: SHARP CORPORATION (/) MADE IN KOREA. A sticker below this lists patent numbers assigned by the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, Sweden, and Italy. The most recent U.S. patent listed has number 3902169. It was issued in 1975 and assigned to Sharp.
label: Description
content: The calculator is in a cardboard box with a cardboard sleeve that slides over it to serve as a cover. Also in the box are a plastic carrying case and a sheet of instructions.
label: Description
content: References:
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content: The calculator.org website, accessed October 22, 2014, dates this calculator to 1977. This is also the date given by the computinghistory.org.uk website.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>North Hills [Pennsylvania] News-Record</I>, March 21, 1978, p. 7. Advertises calculator as regularly priced at $15.00, on sale for $10.00.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Korea
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Handheld Electronic Calculators
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John B. Priser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0988.092
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.092
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; carrying case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (trim circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (instruction sheet; box; sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 3 in x 5 in; 1.5875 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm