Tote Machine Section
date: label: date made
content: 1940s
name: label: maker
content: American Totalisator
notes: label: Description
content: Accurate rapid calculation is important to those placing and collecting bets in horse racing. From the 1930s through at least the 1960s, American race tracks rented room-sized totalisators, or tote machines, to calculate the amount bet on various horses, the odds of winning and placing, and payoffs.
label: Description
content: This section (an intermediate distribution frame) of an American Totalisator C-7 Counter Tote has a light green metal and wooden cabinet with two glass doors in front and a black plastic and cloth cover. Outside the cabinet, at the top of the front, is a row of switches on a black rectangular board. Nine sections of circuitry are within the cabinet, each with its own glass cover in a metal frame. The upper section second from the right was removed for exhibition. Metal holders for the relays are marked individually. Viewed form the back, the cabinet has a large panel, an ammeter and thermometer, and several cylinders on top suited for cable connections. The cover shields the top and about half the sides of the machine.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on a paper tag with a portion removed for exhibit: RELAYS (/) 7307 ADJUSTED (/) BY R. DONELSON (/) DATE 7/17/64.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession File.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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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 General Instrument Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0008.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0008
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0008.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 190 cm x 117 cm x 55 cm; 74 13/16 in x 46 1/16 in x 21 21/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 74 in x 40 in x 21 in; 187.96 cm x 101.6 cm x 53.34 cm