Addometer Associated with Joseph Hirshhorn
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
name: label: maker
content: Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This eight-wheeled stylus-operated adding machine has metal wheels and frame. The wheels each have ten holes around the edge. The two rightmost are white, the next three are red, and the next three are white. All the wheels are labeled around the outside with digits for use in subtraction and around the inside with digits for use in addition. A steel stylus and a clearing bar fit into the right side. The top edge of the instrument has an 11-inch scale of equal parts, divided to sixteenths of an inch. The machine was made by the Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois. The machine fits in a black case labeled: ADDOMETER.
label: Description
content: This example was used by financier and philanthropist Joseph Hirshhorn and was given by his widow, Olga Hirshhorn, to the Hirshhorn Museum and Scuplture Garden, a branch of the Smithsonian. For other Addometers, see 1996.0220.01 and 2010.0215.01.
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content: References:
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content: <I>Typewriter Topics</I>, vol. 66, August, 1927, pp. 36-37 (announced as coming in September - $10.00).
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content: <I>Typewriter Topics</I>, vol. 72, June, 1929, p. 29 (cost $15.00).
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content: <I>Office Appliances</I>, vol. 87, January, 1948, p. 138, 182 (price $12.95).
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content: <I>Office Appliances</I>, vol. 98, Oct., 1953, p. 233 (price $14.95).
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content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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: Transfer from Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3083.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3083
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3083.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (machine, snaps material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (lining of case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (box): 2.5 cm x 30.6 cm x 7.8 cm; 31/32 in x 12 1/16 in x 3 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: addometer: 1.5 cm x 29.6 cm x 6 cm; 19/32 in x 11 21/32 in x 2 3/8 in