Remington Adding and Subtracting Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1913
name: label: maker
content: Remington Typewriter Company
label: maker
content: Wahl Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a combination adding machine and typewriter. The upstrike typewriter has a QWERTY keyboard with two shift keys, a shift lock key, a tab stop set key, a back spacer key, and a space bar. Behind each of the number keys is a bar which leads up to the adding attachment. Keys in a row across the bottom front set the place of the first digit in a number. The typewriter has two carriages. The front one carries a single register that indicates seven-digit totals. The carriage in back has tab-setting devices. Behind this is the ribbon, the rubber platen, and the paper tray. The machine has four rubber feet and two rubber handles for the platen.
label: Description
content: A mark on the paper tray reads: Remington (/)Adding and Subtracting (/) Typewriter. A mark at the bottom front reads: Remington Standard Typewriter No. 11. Marks on the adding mechanism below the front carriage and on the moveable register read: WAHL ADDING MACHINE Co. (/) CHICAGO. The adding mechanism is also marked: PATENTED IN (/) UNITED STATES AND (/) FOREIGN COUNTRIES. (/) DATES & NUMBERS ON (/) BACK COVER. OTHER (/) PATENTS PENDING. (/) DISCOUNT. Marks on the back of the adding attachment give American, French and British patents.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Bookkeeping Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Atle Gjelsvik
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0106.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0106
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0106.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bookkeeping machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.2 cm x 43 cm x 43 cm; 11 1/2 in x 16 15/16 in x 16 15/16 in