Burroughs Series M Bookkeeping Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1951
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This relatively late Burroughs bookkeeping machine has a gray metal cover. In the front are two sets of digit keys, one white and one black, as well as various functions keys. In front of these are space return, motor tab, and full cents bars, as well an an unlabeled bar. Behind the two rows of digit keys is a QWERTY keyboard with four rows of keys. Symbols indicated on some of these keys are unconventional. A lever at the right sets the machine for different registers. A wide carriage is behind the keyboard. The machine has an electric motor.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front reads: Burroughs. A mark on a red paper tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #212. A metal tag screwed to the front of the machine reads: A3451.
label: Description
content: The Burroughs Series M was introduced in 1951. This example was in the collections of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Burroughs Corporation Papers, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Bookkeeping 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: 1982.0794.41
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.41
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
label: Object Name
content: bookkeeping machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 cm x 74 cm x 70 cm; 14 31/32 in x 29 1/8 in x 27 9/16 in