Burroughs Style 7 Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1906-1907
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a full- keyboard printing manual adding machine. It has a black metal frame, a metal mechanism, glass sides, and a metal handle with a wooden knob. Each of the six columns of black and white plastic number keys has a red key at the top. The repeat and error keys are right of the number keys. The subtotal and total keys are to the left. There is no paper tape. The printing mechanism and paper tape are not visible to the operator. A collapsible metal stand is attached to the left side of the machine. The overall dimensions with the stand up are: 49 cm. w. x 37 cm. d. x 32.9 cm. h.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked at the bottom of the front: STYLE No. 7. It is marked on a metal tag below this: No 7-66878. According to the donor, this machine was used in a grocery store in Hopewell, Virginia, in 1917 or earlier.
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content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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 Helen S. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0670.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0670.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0670
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32.9 cm x 26.5 cm x 37 cm; 12 15/16 in x 10 7/16 in x 14 9/16 in