Burroughs Adding Machine Section
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This open cross section of a Burroughs adding machine has a metal frame painted black on one side, a single column of nine plastic-covered keys (one of these is missing), a mechanism for the keys, a short rubber carriage, and type. Two number wheels are at the front. Places where the mechanism and frame have been cut off are painted orange. The model is supposed to show transmission of action from the finger keys to the registering devices. The model rests on a metal shaft that is attached to a square wooden base.
label: Description
content: This section was lent to the Smithsonian in 1924 by Burroughs Adding Machine Company of Detroit as an example of the technology of a current product. It recently has been donated to the Institution by Unisys Corporation.
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 Unisys Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.308345
label: catalog number
content: 308345
label: accession number
content: 2011.0264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine section
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46.5 cm x 19 cm x 38.5 cm; 18 5/16 in x 7 15/32 in x 15 5/32 in