Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
Burroughs Class 3 Adding Machine
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- Description
- This full keyboard printing manual adding machine has a metal frame painted black, a metal keyboard painted green, and nine columns of black and white color-coded plastic keys. A glass window at the front of the machine reveals nine number dials. A crank fits into the right side. Behind the keyboard is a 12” carriage with a narrow paper tape and a bell. The key tops for the five function keys are loose or missing.
- The machine is marked on a metal tag attached to the front: #3-674863. It is marked behind the keyboard: Burroughs. There is a line through the “o” in this mark.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- adding machine
- date made
- 1920
- maker
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20.5 cm x 30 cm x 49.5 cm; 8 1/16 in x 11 13/16 in x 19 1/2 in
- ID Number
- MA.335029
- accession number
- 312145
- maker number
- #3-674863
- catalog number
- 335029
- Credit Line
- Gift of Elbert O. Schlotzhauer
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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