Millionaire Calculating Machine Component
name: label: maker
content: Hans W. Egli
notes: label: Description
content: This object was collected by Brooklyn high school teacher and historian of mathematics L. Leland Locke and held by the Museums of the Peaceful Arts in New York City before coming to the Smithsonian. The mechanism is for entering numbers into a Millionaire calculating machine. A metal frame painted black has six silver-colored numeral wheels that are set by moving six levers of the same color. Six perforated metal ribbons are moved by the levers and in turn drive the numeral wheels.
label: Description
content: Compare to 1986.3114.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland: Zürich, Zurich
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 L. Leland Locke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3003.005
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3003
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3003.005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.5 cm x 16.5 cm x 7 cm; 5 5/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in