Olivetti Underwood Adding Machine

Item 4 vintage olivetti underwood manual typewriter studio 44 unrestored no case 4 vintage olivetti.

Olivetti underwood adding machine.

It is manually powered and does not have a led display. The olivetti multisumma 20 apparently a later machine than the multisumma 22 was introduced in 1965. Olivetti divisumma 33 adding machine vintage. Philip dakin wagoner was appointed president of the elliott fisher company after world war 1 1914 1918.

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Underwood started adding addition and subtraction devices to their typewriters in about 1910. As a manually operated machine it retains the joystick and most of the functions of the summa 15 above but is less than half the weight. Like many olivetti products these adding machines reflect the style of artist and industrial designer marcello nizzoli and have received attention for that reason. The prima 20 is basic 10 key office adding machine with add subtract total and sub total.

This example was manufactured after olivetti acquired the underwood typewriter company in 1959. Elliott fisher became the parent of the underwood typewriter company and the sundstrand adding machine co. According to shapira olivetti purchased a controlling share of underwood in 1959. The mechanism sits in a pressed metal base with a moulded plastic cover.

It prints results on paper and is entirely mechanical.