Accession No

2399

Brief Description

calculating machine by the Marchant Calculating Machine Company, 1947.

Origin

Oakland; California; USA

Maker

Marchant Calculating Machine Company

Class

calculating

Earliest Date

1947

Latest Date

1947

Inscription Date

Material

metal (at least 3 types); rubber; plastic (at least one type); cloth

Dimensions

length 360mm; breadth 321mm; height 215mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Dept of Geology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 06/12/1978. Bought by P. Allen of the Geology Department in 1947

Inscription

‘MARCHANT CALCULATING MACHINE COMPANY, Inc.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.’ (label on underside of instrument)

Description Notes

Black-painted metal casing. Main front of machine carries array of eight columns of keys running from 0 (not marked) to 9. To the right of this array are keys for addition, subtraction, multiplication and ‘auto division’, also ‘stop’, ‘short cut’, ‘clear/return’, ‘middle dial’, ‘upper dial’ and ‘keyboard dial’. Numbers entered on the main array are registered in a the dial set immediately above them. A carriage is set above the main machine and carries two further displays or ‘dials’. The middle dial registers the end result,and the upper dial registers numbers used during the operation. A set of six carriage setting buttons are situated on the left hand side of the carriage, and these govern the point to which the carriage returns. Decimal points are marked by sliding indices below the dials.
Cloth dust cover in poor condition.

Condition good; complete.

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