Adding Machine Section, Burroughs Model 534
Adding Machine Section, Burroughs Model 534
- 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 is a model for a key lock full stroke device for a key-driven adding machine. It is a steel mechanism with octagonal white plastic keys and two numeral wheels rimmed with black plastic. Keys for odd digits are concave, those for even digits are flat. Complementary digits are indicated on the keys. There are nine key stems and eight keys (the “9” key is missing).
- A red tag attached to the object reads: PATENT (/) MODEL (/) No. 534. A metal tag on the side reads: B.A.M.CO. (/) MODEL (/) NO. 534
- 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
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.3 cm x 4.5 cm x 26.8 cm; 4 7/16 in x 1 25/32 in x 10 9/16 in
- ID Number
- 1982.0794.05
- accession number
- 1982.0794
- catalog number
- 1982.0794.05
- Credit Line
- Gift of Burroughs Corporation
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Adding Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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