Burroughs Style 30 17 07 Bookkeeping Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1953
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard, printing bookkeeping machine has a grayish tan metal case and round tan, light tan, and brown keys. It has 17 columns of round plastic keys. The thirteen columns on the right are digit keys, split into five columns and eight columns. The eight columns of digit keys on the right are color-coded in dark tan and light tan. The five columns of digit keys left of these are color-coded in light tan and brown. The machine also has a column of symbol and year keys (with the years “54” and “53”) and three columns of month and date keys. In back of the keyboard is a row of 17 brown column release buttons. Behind the keyboard is a wide carriage and a paper feed. A tan cord is at the back.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front reads: Burroughs. A metal tag screwed to the bottom of the front reads: 98815. A red tag attached to the object reads: PATENT DEPT. (/) #211.
label: Description
content: Compare 1982.0794.34 and 1982.0794.21. The Burroughs Class 30 was introduced 1935. This object was model 211 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
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Bookkeeping 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: 1982.0794.40
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0794.40
label: accession number
content: 1982.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bookkeeping machine
physicalDescription: 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: 32 cm x 65 cm x 63 cm; 12 19/32 in x 25 19/32 in x 24 13/16 in