Featured Technology Ads
Things that were considered technological innovations such as computers, adding machines, plastics, and electric typewriters.
Burroughs Sensimatic 1953 Ad
$5.00
1953 large (10 ¼ x 13 ¼ ) color magazine ad for Burroughs Office Equipment
Titled- “Today’s best answer- to rising accounting costs”- the ad shows a very red office set up with a Burroughs Sensimatic machine in the forefront.
History - (from Wikipedia) Founded in 1886 the Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. It started by making mechanical adding machines (invented by William Seward Burroughs) and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. It was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, also producing related equipment including typewriters and printers.
In 1953 the Sensimatic, advertised here, was a revolutionary adding machine that was able to perform many business functions semi-automatically. It had a moving programmable carriage to maintain ledgers. It could store 9, 18 or 27 balances during the ledger posting operations.
Burroughs was one of the nine major United States computer companies in the 1960s, with IBM the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Digital Equipment Corporation, RCA and Sperry Rand. In terms of
sales, Burroughs was always a distant second to IBM. In fact, IBM's market share was so much the largest that this group was often referred to as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs.In 1986 Burroughs merged with Sperry UNIVAC and was renamed Unisys.
Condition- This ad is in excellent condition and is sold untrimmed and unmatted.
Ditto Duplicating Machines, 1953 Ad
1953 full-page magazine ad for Ditto Duplicating Machines.
Title- “Now! Duplicate 120 Bright Copies a Minute”- the ad shows a Ditto D-10 Duplicator..
History- (edited from Wikipedia) Ditto Machines (also known as spirit duplicators) were invented in 1923 by Wilhelm Ritzerfeld. The best-known manufacturer in the United States and the world was Ditto Corporation of Illinois. Spirit duplicators were used mainly by schools, churches, clubs, and other small organizations because of the limited number of copies one could make from an original, along with the low cost of copying.
Condition- This ad is in excellent condition and measures 10 ¼ x 13 ¼.
$6.00
1953 ad for IBM Electric Typewriters
1953 full-page magazine ad IBM Electric Typewriters
Titled- “That’s the job for me!”- the ad shows a female secretary happily eyeing a new IBM electric typewriter. Art by Stan Klimley.
History - (from Wikipedia) In 1937, IBM's tabulating equipment enabled organizations to process unprecedented amounts of data, its clients including the U.S. Government, during its first effort to maintain the employment records for 26 million people pursuant to the Social Security Act.
The IBM Electromatic typewriter was the first electric typewriter to enjoy long-term commercial success. Unlike the later IBM Selectric typewriter, this typewriter model used a conventional moving carriage and typebar mechanism.
Condition- This ad is in excellent condition and measures 10 ¼ x 13 ¼.
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$5.00
1953 ad for Union Carbide
1953 large (10 ¼ x 13 ¼ ) color magazine ad for Union Carbide
Titled- “Plastic skyhooks”- the ad shows a god-like hand acting like a skyhook.
History - (from Wikipedia) Founded in 1917 as the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation the company's researchers developed an economical way to make ethylene from natural gas liquids, giving birth to the modern petrochemical industry. Before divesting them, the chemical giant owned consumer products Eveready and Energizer batteries, Glad bags and wraps, Simoniz car wax, and Prestone antifreeze.
It is probably best known for the Bhopal Disaster in 1984 when gas accidentally released from a company plant, resulted in 3,787 deaths and left an estimated 40,000 individuals permanently disabled, maimed, or suffering from serious illness. In order to pay off its debt, Carbide sold many of its most familiar brands such as Glad Trashbags and Eveready Batteries. Dow Chemical announced the purchase of Carbide in 1999.
Condition- This ad is in excellent condition and is sold untrimmed and unmatted.
$5.00
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