Ilomantsi Market Square
This recording was made during a regular summer afternoon in Ilomantsi, North Carelia. It is a soundscape recording from an empty market…
Burroughs accounting machine
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About the sound
Burroughs Class 5.
Made by by Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Detroit, Michigan, The United States of America.
This manual adding machine was used for bookkeeping by cooperative movement in Tampere. This type was in production from 1910s to 1960s and remained in active use till 1970s.
It is now part of pedagogical collection in the Labour Museum Werstas.
Video recorder: Kimmo Kestinen
Sound recorder: Kimmo Kestinen
Photographer: Kimmo Kestinen
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