Adding Machine (Burroughs)

Object detail

Accession number

F1477.2004

Maker

Burroughs Adding Machine Company

Description

Burroughs Adding machine. Brown painted Aluminium casing. Number pad consists of 12 columns of octagonal white/grey keys. The buttons are numbered 0-9 in various patterns and a few other. Fourteen small buttons below the number keys to operate the number display windows below. Metal casing with 117 push buttons with 14 display windows.

Marks

Burroughs Maker's Mark
C 55482S Impressed
BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE LIMITED / MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN / STRATHLEVEN SCOTLAND / VOLTS 175-230 TYPE 5 / CYCLES 25-100 AMP .3 Maker's Plate

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Metal

Credit Line

Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Adding Machine (Burroughs), F1477.2004. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Classification

Processor, Analog Data Machine, Calculating Machine, Adding Tools & Equipment for Communication Data Processing T&E Data Processing Devices

Production place

Detroit Michigan United States of America North America Americas

Collection type

Computing and Digital Technology

Subject auto tags

Office equipment Rectangle Space bar Font Numeric keypad Circle Event Pattern Metal Input device

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