Victor Automatic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: maker
content: Victor Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This ten-key printing electric adding machine has a brown metal frame, ten brown numeral keys in a block, and three levers. One bar is marked C, another marked -, and a third has no mark. A red button is at the top right of the keyboard. The place indicator is above the number keys, and the printing mechanism and motor are at the back. The machine adds numbers with as many as ten digits and prints 11-digit results. An electric cord extends out the back. The four feet are rubber. A roll of paper tape is in the machine. Another roll of tape was received with the accession.
label: Description
content: The machine resembles that shown in a 1961 photograph at the time of the merger of Victor Adding Machine Company and Felt & Tarrant Adding Machine Company. The machine is marked: 1535-613 (/) 73 85 54B. It is also marked: MADE BY VICTOR ADDING MACHINE CO. (/) CHICAGO. U.S.A. (/) U.S.A. PATENT No2834542 (/) BRITISH PATENT No 787 507. A Victor adding machine with serial number 1,535,613 dates from 1959 according to the National Office Machine Dealer’s Association.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: <I>NOMDA’s Blue Book: Approximate January 1st Ages Adding Machines and Calculator Retail Prices</I>, November, 1980, p. 57.
label: Description
content: E. Darby, <I>It All Adds Up: The Growth of Victor Comptometer Corporation</I>, Victor Comptometer Corporation, 1968, p. 131.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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 David Rabinow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0791.01
label: maker number
content: 1535613
label: accession number
content: 1991.0791
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0791.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.5 cm x 23.5 cm x 37 cm; 7 9/32 in x 9 1/4 in x 14 9/16 in