Burroughs Series P Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1949
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This dark olive-green printing electric adding machine has a block of nine white plastic number keys with a 0 bar below. One can enter numbers up to ten digits long. On the right side are six function keys for subtotal, total, non-add, error, subtraction, and addition. In front of the keyboard is a white clearance knob. A hole for a handle on the right is covered with a metal piece. A narrow carriage, with printing mechanism, is at the back. It prints results of at least ten digits (the eleventh type bar may be for a digit or a symbol). The ribbon is black, and there is room for another ribbon.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on the front: Burroughs. A red tag attached to the machine reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #137. A metal tag attached to the object reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation. The object was model #137 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
label: Description
content: Burroughs introduced the ten-key series P machine in 1949. According to the accession file, this is the first model and was associated with the Burroughs inventor John Magnus.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file 1982.0794.
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 Burroughs Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0794.23
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 cm x 23 cm x 34 cm; 9 1/16 in x 9 1/16 in x 13 3/8 in