Marchant Calculating Machine Model
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Marchant
notes: label: Description
content: This is a model designed to demonstrate “simplified multiplication” on a Marchant calculating machine. It has a rectangular wooden base and a metal frame. The single bank of keys has nine square gray keys on it. The operating handle is on the right side. The shape of the keys suggests that this model is from the mid-1960s, when multiplication keys on SCM Marchant models such as the CFA were square. However, the rest of the mechanism, particularly the wooden base, suggest an earlier date.
label: Description
content: A metal tag attached to the base reads: SIMPLIFIED (/) MULTIPLICATION. It also reads: M. A final mark reads: U.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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 SCM Corporation, Business Equipment Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335382
label: catalog number
content: 335382
label: accession number
content: 318944
label: maker number
content: none
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.8 cm x 12.3 cm x 30.5 cm; 7 13/32 in x 4 27/32 in x 12 in