Brunsviga 132z-18
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Brunsviga Maschinenwerke, Grimme, Natalis & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a twin Brunsviga calculating machine. The pinwheel lever-set non-printing machine has a metal housing painted black, a metal mechanism, a wooden base, and a metal cover. It consists of two adjacent and interconnected instruments. Each has ten levers for setting numbers, with the number set appearing in a row of windows above the levers. The two result registers are on a single carriage at the front of the machine, and the two revolution registers are in back of the respective levers. The handle for operating both machines extends from the right side. All the registers have zeroing levers and decimal markers.
label: Description
content: A mark on the right front carriage reads: BRUNSVIGA-MASCHINENWERKE (/) GRIMME, NATALIS & CO.A.-G. A stamp on the left front gives the model and serial number: BRUNSVIGA 13Z-18 (/) 200118
label: Description
content: The cover has three marks: H. T. 243; Hpk. 2; and PROPERTY OF USA -CE-M (/) 7420-111-0018.
label: Description
content: This machine came to the Smithsonian from the Department of Chemistry at Bridgewater College in 1972.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: <I>Office Machines Research Service</I>, vol. III, section 4.31, July, 1939, pp. 7–10.
label: Description
content: F. Schellstede, “Brunsviga. Produktionxzahlen, Absatzzahlen, Werbung. Versuch einer kurzen geschichtlichen Darstellung,” Kassel, 1990.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Lower Saxony, Brunswick
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bridgewater College, Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0709.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0709
label: catalog number
content: 330819
label: maker number
content: 200118
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.3 cm x 51.8 cm x 27.8 cm; 8 in x 20 13/32 in x 10 15/16 in