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- Corona Portable Typewriter, 1921 -
- 1921
- Collections - Artifact
Corona Portable Typewriter, 1921
- Remington Standard Typewriter, Model No. 11, 1916 - Sholes & Glidden introduced the first practical typewriter in 1874. By the 1880s, there were several companies mass producing these machines, including rifle manufacturer Remington & Sons. Typewriters were part of the "information explosion" that included technologies like the phonograph and telephone. They modernized offices by helping workers--increasingly women--reproduce and organize information more neatly and quickly than handwriting.
- 1916
- Collections - Artifact
Remington Standard Typewriter, Model No. 11, 1916
Sholes & Glidden introduced the first practical typewriter in 1874. By the 1880s, there were several companies mass producing these machines, including rifle manufacturer Remington & Sons. Typewriters were part of the "information explosion" that included technologies like the phonograph and telephone. They modernized offices by helping workers--increasingly women--reproduce and organize information more neatly and quickly than handwriting.
- Sun Standard Typewriter, Model 2, 1901-1907 -
- 1901-1907
- Collections - Artifact
Sun Standard Typewriter, Model 2, 1901-1907
- Remington Desk Typewriter, Model No. 2, 1892 - Sholes & Glidden introduced the first practical typewriter in 1874. By the 1880s, there were several companies mass producing these machines, including rifle manufacturer Remington & Sons. Typewriters were part of the "information explosion" that included technologies like the phonograph and telephone. They modernized offices by helping workers--increasingly women--reproduce and organize information more neatly and quickly than handwriting.
- 1892
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Remington Desk Typewriter, Model No. 2, 1892
Sholes & Glidden introduced the first practical typewriter in 1874. By the 1880s, there were several companies mass producing these machines, including rifle manufacturer Remington & Sons. Typewriters were part of the "information explosion" that included technologies like the phonograph and telephone. They modernized offices by helping workers--increasingly women--reproduce and organize information more neatly and quickly than handwriting.
- Simplex Typewriter, 1892-1900 - Truth in advertising: the Simplex typewriter is very simple. This index typewriter was sold throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sometimes as a toy and sometimes as a serious typewriter, but it was always the same product. On the Simplex, typists used a pointer to choose letters on a type wheel, and then pressed down to print.
- 1892-1900
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Simplex Typewriter, 1892-1900
Truth in advertising: the Simplex typewriter is very simple. This index typewriter was sold throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sometimes as a toy and sometimes as a serious typewriter, but it was always the same product. On the Simplex, typists used a pointer to choose letters on a type wheel, and then pressed down to print.
- Sholes Visible Desk Typewriter, 1901-1905 - Christopher Latham Sholes, a Milwaukee journalist, politician, and printer, invented the first commercially successful typewriter, the Sholes and Glidden, in the 1860s. He continued to make improvements in typewriter design throughout his career. This Sholes Visible, manufactured by a Wisconsin typewriter company, has an unusual feature: typebars at angles to the platen. This was Sholes' last patented typewriter design, ending a mostly successful career.
- 1901-1905
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Sholes Visible Desk Typewriter, 1901-1905
Christopher Latham Sholes, a Milwaukee journalist, politician, and printer, invented the first commercially successful typewriter, the Sholes and Glidden, in the 1860s. He continued to make improvements in typewriter design throughout his career. This Sholes Visible, manufactured by a Wisconsin typewriter company, has an unusual feature: typebars at angles to the platen. This was Sholes' last patented typewriter design, ending a mostly successful career.
- Woodstock Electrite Typewriter, 1923-1927 -
- 1923-1927
- Collections - Artifact
Woodstock Electrite Typewriter, 1923-1927
- Smith Premier Desk Typewriter, Model No. 10, 1908 -
- 1908
- Collections - Artifact
Smith Premier Desk Typewriter, Model No. 10, 1908
- Royal Typewriter, Model KKM, 1938 -
- 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Royal Typewriter, Model KKM, 1938
- Smith Corona Electric Typewriter, 1988 -
- 1988
- Collections - Artifact
Smith Corona Electric Typewriter, 1988