Burroughs Class I / Model 9 Adding Machine, 1910

THF172306 / Burroughs Class I / Model 9 Adding Machine, 1910
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Artifact Overview

Mechanical adding machines were indispensable office equipment used before the computer era. These devices were perfected by the American Arithmometer Company in 1886, spurred on by William Seward Burrough's desire to reduce drudgery in clerical arithmetic work. Transistors and electronic desktop calculators displaced adding machines in the 1950s; by the 1970s, microchips reduced calculators to the size of a shirt pocket.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Adding machine

Date Made

1910

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

90.203.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Glass (Material)
Iron alloy
Plastic
Paper (Fiber product)
Wood (Plant material)
Felt (Textile)

Dimensions

Height: 12.5 in
Width: 17 in
Length: 17.5 in
Weight: 67 lbs

Inscriptions

front: BURROUGHS DETROIT, MICH. U.S.A. front, plaque: No. 9 - 142725 clipping, front: BURROUGHS CLASS I ADDING MACHINE MANUFACTURED IN 1895 back: PATENTED SEP.12,1893. SEP.28,1897. DEC.13,1898. MAR.29,1904. JUN.12,1906. JUL.3,1906. NOV.20,1906. DEC.21,1907. JUL.14,1908. OTHERS PENDG.
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