IBM Electromatic Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description
content: This Electromatic brand typewriter was manufactured by the International Business Machines Corporation beginning in 1935. The Electromatic typewriter was first manufactured in 1924 by the North East Electric Company. The North East Electric Company produced the motor and base, and used a Remington model 12 as the typewriter. The North East Electric Company became the Electromatic Typewriter Company before being purchased by IBM in 1933. In 1935 IBM produced the Electromatic Model 01 for the first time. The Electromatic operated with a motor controlling all aspects of typing, from the type bar to the carriage returns, allowing the user to operate the typewriter without their fingers ever leaving the keyboard.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lenore Fenton MacClain
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0544.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0544.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter, electromatic, dvorak kb
label: Object Name
content: typewriter, electromatic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 16 in x 14 in; 27.305 cm x 40.64 cm x 35.56 cm