Machine, Adding

Name/Title

Machine, Adding

Description

Housing has a charcoal gray pebbled surface; rests on 4 rubber pads; front of machine is slanted and has a keyboard of 9 rows with 8 keys per row; keys are arranged so that there are 3 black keys, 3 white keys and 2 black keys per row; to right of key board are operating controls--silver lever for repeating a number, green correcting key, black bar adding and red bar for subtracting; at top of key board is a viewing port where numbers on a dial turn around so can see changes in the total, machine also designed to print on papter tape. Marks: back of machine has lettering "Allen Wales Adding Machine Corp/Ithaca, New York/United States of America/Allen Wales" front of machine re[peates maker's name, but also has sericl number "9E66008" Found In Collection

Collection

Found In Collection

Acquisition

Accession

1986.001

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Made/Created

Place

Location

Ithaca, New York

Notes

Made: 1920's - 1940's byAllen Wales Adding Machine Corp.

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Nov 25, 2001

Create Date

November 25, 2001

Update Date

November 27, 2001