Adding Machine Section, Burroughs Model 653
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of a series of adding machines and adding machine models prepared by the Patent Department of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. This model of part of an adding machine is a steel mechanism with one column of nine octagonal black plastic keys and two numeral wheels with black plastic rims. Keys for odd digits are concave, and flat for even digits. Complementary digits are indicated on the keys. A part of the right side is bent outward at the front. Several pieces are loose but not detached.
label: Description
content: A metal tag attached to the object reads: B.A.M.CO. (/) MODEL (/) No. 653. it is stamped on the side: 1.A 3 - 31- ‘25.
label: Description
content: Objects 1982.0794.04 through1982.0794.10 were received together as Burroughs Patent model 42. A red paper tag received with this group of objects reads: PATENT DEPT (/) #42.
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: 1982.0794.08
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 9.5 cm x 28.4 cm; 4 17/32 in x 3 3/4 in x 11 3/16 in