This is an experimental model of a section of a full-keyboard non-listing adding machine. It has one column of five white plastic keys on the right, two partial columns of black keys in the center, and one column of nine black keys on the left. Complementary digits are indicated. The keys are alternately concave (odd digits) and flat (even digits). There are four numeral dials at the front, a zeroing lever on the right side, and a red button on the right behind the keyboard. The dial in the rightmost position is numbered zero to 5 and is slightly smaller than the others. There are two subtraction levers and no decimal markers. There is no base and no cover.
A mechanism to record fractional sixths or sixtieths, it was built at Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company in Chicago, but not produced. It was in the collections of Felt & Tarrant, and came to the Smithsonian from the successor firm of Victor Comptometer Corporation.
Reference:
Accession Journal 1991.3107.06
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