Adding Machine Section, Burroughs Model 903
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
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. It is a steel mechanism for part of a key-driven adding machine. There are a one column of nine octagonal white plastic keys and two numeral wheels with black plastic rim. Keys for odd digits are concave, and for even digits, flat. Complementary digits are indicated on the keys. According to the accession file, this is an invention of Walter J. Pasinski. It compels a full stroke on keys.
label: Description
content: A metal tag attached to the object reads: B.A.M.CO. (/) MODEL (/) No. 903.
label: Description
content: Objects 1982.0794.04 through 1982.0794.10 received together as Burroughs Patent model 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: 1982.0794.10
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.10
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: 13.5 cm x 5.4 cm x 26.6 cm; 5 5/16 in x 2 1/8 in x 10 15/32 in