Adding Machine Section, Burroughs Model 534a
- Description
- This is one of a series of adding machines and adding machine models prepared by the Patent Department of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. It is a steel mechanism for an adding machine with a column of 9 octagonal white plastic keys and two numeral wheels. Keys for odd digits are concave, and for even digits, flat. Complementary digits are indicated on the keys. Mechanism for “9” key only.
- A red tag attached to the object reads: PATENT (/) MODEL (/) No. 534A. A metal tag on the side reads: MODEL ROOM (/) 534A.
- Objects 1982.0794.04 through 1982.0794.10 were received together as Burroughs Patent model 42. This object is described in accession file as an invention of Walter J. Pasinski of Burroughs. Pasinski and other Burroughs inventors filed several patents for key-driven adding machines between 1911 and 1929.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- adding machine model
- date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 26.8 cm; 4 17/32 in x 1 25/32 in x 10 9/16 in
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.06
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.06
- subject
- Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
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