Burroughs Style P400 Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1952
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard electric printing adding machine has a gray metal case, a steel mechanism, and thirteen columns of white, tan, and brown plastic number keys. In addition, there is a column of five function keys to the right of the number keys and two bars for addition and subtraction to the right of this. A printing mechanism at the top has no paper tape or bar to hold a paper tape. The printing device prints numbers of up to 13 digits. The carriage for the paper tape is four inches wide. Knobs on the left and right can be used to advance it manually and there is a plastic serrated edge for tearing it. The cord is missing. The machine has four rubber feet.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on the front: Burroughs. It is marked on a tag attached to the bottom: AB3555. It is marked on a tag: SERIES P. A metal tag attached to the object reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation. This is model #258 from the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
label: Description
content: The series P400 was introduced in 1952.
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: 1982.0794.60
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.60
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: Measurements
content: overall: 26 cm x 36.8 cm x 39 cm; 10 1/4 in x 14 1/2 in x 15 11/32 in