Burroughs Series P Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard printing electric adding machine is a relatively late desktop machine made by Burroughs Corporation. It has a tan steel frame and nine columns of tan and brown square plastic keys. To the left of these is a column of keys with abbreviations for various financial transactions. There are function bars and keys to the right of the number keys.
label: Description
content: Above the keyboard is a two-colored ribbon and a printing mechanism, an adjustable wide carriage, and a narrow paper tape. The ribbon and its spools are covered, with screws securing the covers. Plastic knobs at the ends of the carriage are rotated to advance the platen. Next to the printing mechanism is a supplementary mechanism for setting dates. On the right side of the machine is a place for inserting a crank, although there is no crank. At the left front of the machine is a lock, with the key in it.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on the front: Burroughs. It has serial number on a metal tag on the back: P464325D. It is marked on another metal tag on the back: SERUES P (/) BURROUGHS CORPORATION (/) DETROIT, MICHIGAN MADE IN U.S. AMERICA.
label: Description
content: The machine came to the Smithsonian from the Hyattsville, Maryland, branch of the Vermont Federal Savings and Loan bank.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0285.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0285.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0285
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.5 cm x 45 cm x 42 cm; 11 5/8 in x 17 23/32 in x 16 17/32 in