Marchant Model 8DRX Calculating Machine - Figurematic
date: label: date made
content: 1955
name: label: maker
content: Marchant Calculating Machine Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard, non-printing electric proportional gear calculating machine is blue and gray with a metal frame and mechanism, plastic keys and cover, a cloth lining for the frame, and rubber feet. The eight columns of green and white keys have nine keys per column. A column of ten gray keys on the right allows automatic multiplication. Eight wheels display the number entered. Function keys are for addition, subtraction, division, stop, non shift, NEG X, carriage movement (to the right and to the left), and clearing (four keys).
label: Description
content: On the carriage at the back are eight wheels for the revolution counter and 16 wheels for the result. Decimal markers slide between the entry and the result registers. Reversible decimal markers turn between windows of the registers on the carriage. The carriage also has a wheel for selection of carriage position.
label: Description
content: Inside the case is an electric motor made by General Electric.
label: Description
content: A metal tag attached to the bottom of the machine reads: 8DRX-426300. A mark below the keys reads: MARCHANT fIGUREMATIC. A mark on the right and left sides reads: MARCHANT.
label: Description
content: The machine was given to the donor by an insurance company employee named Williams.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: SCM Collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Oakland
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 Frank Salerno
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0307.001
label: maker number
content: 8DRX-426300
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0307.001
label: accession number
content: 1994.0307
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.6 cm x 34.5 cm x 41 cm; 8 29/32 in x 13 19/32 in x 16 5/32 in