Burroughs Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard key-driven non-printing adding machine has nine columns of keys with nine keys in each column. Complementary digits are indicated on the keys. Keys for odd digits are concave, and those for even digits are flat. The machine has a metal case painted black, with the keyboard painted green. Ten windows at the front of the machine show wheels giving the result. Three decimal markers that slide above these. The zeroing lever is on the right side. There also is a key on the upper left.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front reads: Burroughs Calculator. One on the back reads: Burroughs (/) THIS MACHINE PROTECTED BY U.S. AND FOREIGN PATENTS. A metal tag on the bottom reads: 5-898901. This is a Burroughs Class 5.
label: Description
content: Compare 1990.0316.04.
label: Description
content: This object was lent to the Smithsonian Institution in 1924 as an example of a current product of Burroughs Adding Machine Company. More recently Unisys Corporation transformed that loan into a gift.
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 Unisys Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.308344
label: maker number
content: 5-898901
label: catalog number
content: 308344
label: accession number
content: 2011.0264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
label: Other Terms
content: adding machine; Full-Keyboard, Non-Listing, Manual
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.3 cm x 27 cm x 30.5 cm; 6 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 12 in