Object Details
- Description
- The orange, black, and tan paper box contains a black and gold-colored metal instrument, instructions on pink paper, and a metal stylus. The device has seven columns for addition.
- The Baby Calculator was a handheld adder manufactured by the Calculator Machine Company of Chicago from at least 1925 into the 1940s. The Tavella Sales Company of New York City distributed this example. According to the box, it sold for $2.50 in the United States and $3.00 in Canada and other foreign countries. It has hooks at the top of each column for carrying in addition, but none at the bottom to assist in borrowing in subtraction.
- References:
- Typewriter Topics (March 1925), 59:76.
- Popular Mechanics (January, 1935), p. 128A; vol. 73 (March, 1940), p. 143A; vol. 83 (February, 1945), p. 192. A new design was introduced in 1945. See Popular Mechanics, April, 1945, p. 202.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- distributor
- Tavella Sales Company
- maker
- Calculator Machine Company
- date made
- ca 1925
- Credit Line
- Gift of L. Leland Locke
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.2 cm x 8.2 cm x 15.3 cm; 15/32 in x 3 7/32 in x 6 1/32 in
- Object Name
- adder
