Burroughs Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard printing electric adding machine has a dark brown metal case and square plastic key covers. An operating bar is on the right, next to a column of function keys, and a column of 1/8 to 7/8 fraction keys. The next two columns contain a total of 15 keys, numbered from 1 to 15. There are then seven columns of digit keys, with nine keys in each column. The narrow carriage at the top of the machine has a serrated edge for tearing the paper tape. The paper tape, paper tape holder, and handle are separate.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on the front: Burroughs. A red tag attached to it reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #281. A metal tag attached at the lower front reads: D3555.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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 Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0794.73
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.73
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.5 cm x 23 cm x 34.2 cm; 8 27/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 13 15/32 in