Austin Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1912
name: label: maker
content: Austin Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This adding machine has an iron frame with glass sides, back, and top. Across the front are ten plastic-covered keys. The operating crank is on the right side. The number entered appears in one window under the glass, and the total in another window. Decimal points and commas are represented by painted arrows. There is a zeroing lever on the left side. The machine does not print. The machine is marked: AUSTIN. It is also marked: Austin Adding Machine (/) Baltimore. U.S.A. A tag attached to the base on the inside of the machine toward the back is stamped with the serial number: A-1224.
label: Description
content: The donor acquired this machine in the early 1960s from a veterinarian’s office, where it had remained after the doctor passed away in the early 1930s.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Sydney B. Austin, “Adding, Subtracting and Multiplying Machine,” US Patent 1,034565, August 6, 1912.
label: Description
content: E. Martin, <I>The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen)</I>, trans. P. A. Kidwell and M. R. Williams, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992, p. 267.
label: Description
content: Accession File.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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 Richard Peshek
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.333895
label: accession number
content: 304348
label: catalog number
content: 333895
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 27.5 cm x 35.5 cm; 8 1/16 in x 10 13/16 in x 13 31/32 in