Burroughs Class 9A Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full keyboard printing electric adding machine has a black steel frame with black, white, and two red plastic keys. Numbers printed are visible. The ten columns of square numeral keys, with the keys in each column numbered from 1 to 9, are to the left of the column of function keys. Right of the function keys are bars marked for addition and subtraction. The narrow printing mechanism at the back can print numbers of up to 11 digits.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front of the machine reads: Burroughs. One on a plate under the keys reads: A550544. IA metal tag screwed to this plate reads: A305. A red paper tag attached to the object reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #97. A tag to the right of the number keys reads: 139-286. A metal tag attached to the object reads: DONATED TO (/) The Smithsonian Institution (/) by (/) Burroughs Corporation. An electric cord extends from the back of the machine. There is a black cover. A dark brown metal plate found in the box with the machine has no apparent connection to it.
label: Description
content: The object was model #97 in the collection of the Patent Division of Burroughs Corporation.
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: 1982.0794.18
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine with cover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.3 cm x 22.3 cm x 34.3 cm; 8 25/32 in x 8 25/32 in x 13 1/2 in