Burroughs Electro-Mechanical Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1932
notes: label: Description
content: This Burroughs Corporation electro-mechanical typewriter was produced during the first half of the 20th century in Detroit, Michigan. Burroughs was better known for its line of adding machines, as it began its history as the American Arithmometer Company, before changing its name to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. In 1953 the company renamed itself the Burroughs Corporation, moving on to produce typewriters, and subsequently computer mainframes. This typewriter has mechanical keys, but an electric carriage return. The typewriter has an extra-wide carriage to accommodate larger sheets of paper, intended for tabular and statistical work.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jack Markowitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0952.01
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0952.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0952
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter, electro-mechanical
label: Object Name
content: electro-mechanical typewriter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 14 in x 32 in; 23.495 cm x 35.56 cm x 81.28 cm