Ve-Po-Ad Adder

Description:

This black and gold notched band adder comes in a maroon cloth-covered cardboard notebook with a rusting stylus. It has eight columns of digits, and nine windows for displaying results. The narrow zeroing rod is at the top. With the object is a piece of the wrapping in which the adder was sent, showing the postage and date mailed.

With MA.323626, this object is F&T 43 (1&2) from the collection of Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company.

The VE-PO-AD (Vest Pocket Adder) was sold by Reliable Typewriter and Adding Machine Corporation of Chicago from at least 1924 through at least 1940.

References: Typewriter Topics, 57 (July 1924) p. 80.

Popular Science Monthly, 126 (January 1933) p. 107.

Popular Mechanics, 73 (January 1940) p. 127A, (February 1940) p. 151A, (March, 1940) p. 123A.

P. Kidwell, "Adders Made and Used in the United States," Rittenhouse, 1994, 8:78-96.

Date Made: 1937

Distributor: Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine CorporationMaker: Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Corporation

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Illinois, ChicagoPlace Distributed: United States: Illinois, Chicago

Subject: Mathematics

Subject:

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics, Adder, Science & Mathematics

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Credit Line: Gift of Victor Comptometer Corporation

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: MA.323627Catalog Number: 323627Accession Number: 250163

Object Name: adder

Physical Description: cloth (overall material)metal (overall material)paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: .8 cm x 8.3 cm x 12.6 cm; 5/16 in x 3 9/32 in x 4 31/32 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-14c1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_690246

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