Teletype Machines Teletype Machines Teletype machines from the Teletype Corporation, Skokie, Illinois. Regular maintenance and lubrication is required.
Paper is roll-fed.
The Answerback reply was programmed by breaking teeth off a plastic gear. Teletypes in one form or another go back to about 1909. They were used originally as automatic Telegraph and Telegram machines. Teletypes reached their familiar mature form around 1920. HERE for a large color photo from the Catholic University of Leeuwen .