Marchant Model G-8EFA Calculating Machine (Figuremaster)
date: label: date made
content: 1952
name: label: maker
content: Marchant Calculating Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard, proportional gear non-printing electric calculating machine has a metal case painted blue-green with a metal keyboard painted gray, and eight columns of green and white plastic keys. At the bottom of each column is a tabulator set key These tab keys are numbered from 1 on the right to 8 on the left.
label: Description
content: Right of the number keys are a small on-off switch; division, line up, and stop keys; subtraction and addition bars; a non-shift key; a repeat key; a negative multiplication bar; and two carriage shift keys. In front of these are clearance keys for the tab set, the keyboard, and the dials. Right of these is a column of ten keys for automatic multiplication. Above the number keys is a row of eight windows to show a number set up.
label: Description
content: Behind the entry register is a movable carriage with an 16-window result register and an eight-window revolution register. The motor is at the back of the machine, inside the case. The machine presently has no cord.
label: Description
content: A mark on the bottom of the machine and scratched on the front reads: G8EFA 394253. A paper tag attached to the bottom reads in part: MARCHANT. It also reads in part: Figuremaster
label: Description
content: The Marchant Model 8EFA sold from at least 1951 until at least 1958.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Oakland
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of SCM Corporation, Business Equipment Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335380
label: accession number
content: 318944
label: maker number
content: 394253
label: catalog number
content: 335380
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 34.2 cm x 41 cm; 8 21/32 in x 13 15/32 in x 16 5/32 in