Comptometer Section
date: label: date made
content: 1939
name: label: maker
content: Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a model of a section of a relatively late Comptometer, a full-keyboard non-listing adding machine built in Chicago.
label: Description
content: This model has one column of white plastic keys and two partial columns. Odd numbered digit keys are concave, even numbered ones, flat. It has a steel mechanism, aluminum numeral wheels, a bell, and a metal handle to the right of the keys. Next to the keyboard at the back right is a red key. The model has no case. A label received with the collection dates the model M Comptometer to 1939.
label: Description
content: The machine was part of the collection of Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company, makers of the Comptometer. It was donated to the Smithsonian by the successor firm of Victor Comptometer Corporation.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession Journal 1991.3107.06.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
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 Victor Comptometer Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.323638
label: catalog number
content: 323638
label: accession number
content: 250163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine section
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.3 cm x 12 cm x 35.5 cm; 6 1/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 13 31/32 in