Remington Rand Type 312-1 Interpreter, for Use with a Model 3 Remington Rand Tabulating Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand
notes: label: Description
content: This machine, part of a Remington Rand punched card system, is roughly the size and shape of a corner mailbox (but much denser) and has a gray metal exterior. It interpreted the punched holes in a 90-column punched card and registered this interpretation by printing numbers and letters along the top of the card. The card feed is at the center front and the card receiver, at the back. A door on the right side opens to allow one to remove the wiring unit chamber. The wires sense whether there is a hole in a given position of a card, and determine what is printed and where by the printing unit below it.
label: Description
content: A tag attached to the machine reads: Model 3 (/) Type Number 312-1. Another tag attached to the machine reads: A..F.L.-C.I.O (/) HEADQUARTERS (/) 40.
label: Description
content: Three loose pieces are with the machine.
label: Description
content: This machine is part of a system owned by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, an important American labor union formed by the merger of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. in 1955.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Remington Rand, <I>Type 312 Punched-Card Interpreter Operating Instructions</I>, New York: Remington Rand, no date.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: web subject
content: Labor Unions
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Tabulating Equipment
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.336300
label: accession number
content: 305981
label: catalog number
content: 336300
objectType: label: Object Name
content: interpreter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 106 cm x 56 cm x 56 cm; 41 23/32 in x 22 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in