Magic-Brain Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: distributor
content: Sunset House
notes: label: Description
content: This adder has a red plastic back and a gray steel front. There are six columns for entering numbers with a stylus, and a seventh notched band to record carries to a seventh digit. A set of seven openings above the bracket-shaped columns of the adder displays the result. A zeroing bar is across the top. The plastic is shaped to hold the steel stylus.
label: Description
content: The object is marked: MAGIC-BRAIN [/] CALCULATOR; ADD + [/] SUBTRACT - [/] MULTIPLY X; and: JAPAN. Instructions are stored separately. Compare to 1987.0375.01.
label: Description
content: References: <I>Popular Science</I>, February, 1962, vol. 180, p. 20. This ad indicates that the Magic-Brain Calculator cost $.98 and was distributed from the Sunset Building, Beverly Hills, California.
label: Description
content: P. Kidwell, “Adders Made and Used in the United States,” <I>Rittenhouse</I>, 8, (1994): pp. 78-96.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
label: place distributed
content: United States: California, Beverly Hills
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Adder
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3058.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1993.3058
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3058.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 7 cm x 14.4 cm; 13/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 21/32 in