Burroughs adding machine instruction manual

Key-driven and Electric Calculators. This group of machine are calculating machines comprising all non-printing (listing) machines. Typically called Key Driven Calculators at Burroughs. The first machines of this type were built by Dorr E. Felt and marketed by the Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company for many years. The fully mechanical machine performs only one mathematical function: addition. When a twenty-five-year-old Burroughs became frustrated with the time involved in adding numbers as a bank clerk in , he set out to speed up the process mechanically. Patent application was made in and major production started in Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Publication date. January 1, See all details. Next page. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Apple.5/5(1).

Burroughs Adding Machine Company introduced the Burroughs Calculator in about to compete with the Comptometer. It sold as the Burroughs Class 5 from Compare MA and Reference: American Digest of Business Machines, , pp. 70, This suggests that the machine is a Burroughs model On the back it says, "Burroughs Adding Machine of Canada Ltd. Windsor Ontario. Made in Canada." I don't know where the serial number would be. I will work my way through the photos of your manuals above, but any information you can add to help in my restoration of this beauty would be appreciated. Thank you for this site. Reply Delete. A number of original Walther service manuals, parts manuals, mechanism descriptions, and technical documents have been donated from the estate of a former Walther calculator technician. The manuals cover most of Walther's post-war mechanical calculators and adding machines, and the first of the earlys electronic calculators.

Manual of Instruction for Burroughs Calculator Hardcover – January 1, by Burroughs Adding Machine Company (Author) out of 5 stars 1 rating. Welcome to the Burroughs Home Page. This site is dedicated to the memory of William Seward Burroughs ( - ) and the business machine industry he helped to create. The goal of this site is to provide information to collectors, both dedicated and casual, about the history of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company and it's products. Full-Keyboard – Burroughs. William Seward Burroughs (ca ), the son of a machinist in upstate New York, spent some years working as a clerk before moving to St. Louis and taking up invention. From , he attracted investors to aid in his development of a printing adding machine. By , he had patented a machine and sent it out on.