Dalton Extra-Special Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1916
name: label: maker
content: Dalton Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This ten-key printing manual adding machine has an aluminum frame painted black with a steel keyboard painted green. The digit keys, which include complementary digits in red, are arranged in two rows.. On the right are plastic repeat and total keys. On the left is another key stem, with no key cover. There is no place indicator. The metal crank with wooden handle is on the right side. The printing mechanism is behind this, with a 2-5/8" carriage apparently designed for a 2-1/2” paper tape. There is no paper tape. The ribbon prints in both black and red. Apparently the machine does not print symbols.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on a metal tag attached to the front: THE (/) DALTON (/) ADDING (/) MACHINE (/) CO. (/) REG.U.S.PAT.OFF. It is also marked there: PAT. SEPT. 24, 1912, No. 1039130 (/) PAT. DEC. 31, 1912, No. 1049057 (/) PAT. DEC. 31. 1912, No. 1049093 (/) OTHER PATENTS PENDING (/) CINCINNATI, OHIO(EAST NORWOOD). It is marked on the back: NO28554.
label: Description
content: The donor, Bobbie Harvey, was a member of the Smithsonian guard force and donated this machine in 1975. He said it was given to his father by a friend some years previously.
label: Description
content: Compare to MA.323329.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
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 Mr. Bobbie Harvey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335299
label: accession number
content: 317852
label: maker number
content: 28554
label: catalog number
content: 335299
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
label: Other Terms
content: adding machine; Ten-Key, Listing, Manual
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.5 cm x 32 cm x 37.5 cm; 13 19/32 in x 12 19/32 in x 14 3/4 in