Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard printing manually operated adding machine has a metal frame painted black, a metal keyboard painted green, and seven columns of black and white color-coded plastic keys. A row of eight number wheels is visible at the front of the machine through a glass window. An operating handle that fits on the right side, and three function key stems are on the left. The printing mechanism, with space for ribbon and paper tape, is behind the keyboard. The carriage is 10 cm. (4”) wide, with a serrated edge for tearing the paper tape and a knob on the right to advance the paper. The machine is not entirely assembled and is incomplete. Several spare pieces are present, including a row of red plastic keys like the clearance keys on a Monroe.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked on a tag at the front: 3-37428. It is marked behind the keyboard, with a “g” in an unusual font: Burroughs.
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 Elbert O. Schlotzhauer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335030
label: accession number
content: 312145
label: maker number
content: 3-37428
label: catalog number
content: 335030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.7 cm x 30 cm x 49.5 cm; 9 23/32 in x 11 13/16 in x 19 1/2 in