Object Details
- Description
- Accurate rapid calculation is important to those placing and collecting bets in horse racing. From the 1930s through at least the 1960s, American race tracks rented room-sized totalisators, or tote machines, to calculate the amount bet on various horses, the odds of winning and placing, and payoffs.
- This section (an intermediate distribution frame) of an American Totalisator C-7 Counter Tote has a light green metal and wooden cabinet with two glass doors in front and a black plastic and cloth cover. Outside the cabinet, at the top of the front, is a row of switches on a black rectangular board. Nine sections of circuitry are within the cabinet, each with its own glass cover in a metal frame. The upper section second from the right was removed for exhibition. Metal holders for the relays are marked individually. Viewed form the back, the cabinet has a large panel, an ammeter and thermometer, and several cylinders on top suited for cable connections. The cover shields the top and about half the sides of the machine.
- The machine is marked on a paper tag with a portion removed for exhibit: RELAYS (/) 7307 ADJUSTED (/) BY R. DONELSON (/) DATE 7/17/64.
- Reference:
- Accession File.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- American Totalisator
- date made
- 1940s
- Credit Line
- Gift of General Instrument Corporation
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 190 cm x 117 cm x 55 cm; 74 13/16 in x 46 1/16 in x 21 21/32 in
- overall: 74 in x 40 in x 21 in; 187.96 cm x 101.6 cm x 53.34 cm
- Object Name
- adding machine
