Burroughs Sensimatic Series 200
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard electric adding machine is in several pieces. The body with keyboard in mechanism has a tan metal frame with 14 columns of tan and brown keys, ten keys per column, and four columns of function keys. Three dials on the leftmost side of the machine can be used to set a date. A dial at the front of the machine alters a five-digit number read from five numeral dials next to it. The ribbon for the printing mechanism and the printing mechanism itself are above the keyboard. There also is a metal carriage mostly painted tan, with a rubber platen and plastic handles. A paper label inserted above the cylinder indicates quantities to be entered. A small nut is loose with the carriage.
label: Description
content: In addition to these major pieces, there are a variety of plastic and metal parts, a roll of paper, and a gray plastic cover.
label: Description
content: A red paper tag attached to the object reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #327. A white paper tag reads: CASE NO 3473 (/) THIS MACHINE IS A (/) PATENT MODEL (/) AND SHOULD NOT BE USED (/) OPERATED OR LOANED TO ANYONE. The machine is marked on the frame: Burroughs Sensimatic. It is also marked there: Series 200. A metal tag attached to the object reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation.
label: Description
content: This was model #327 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs made the Sensimatic from 1950 until 1961.
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: 1982.0794.83
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.83
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
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: 27 cm x 40.7 cm x 52 cm; 10 5/8 in x 16 1/32 in x 20 15/32 in