Remington Standard No. 2 Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1878
name: label: maker
content: Remington
notes: label: Description
content: This Standard Number 2 typewriter was manufactured by E. Remington and Sons in 1878. The Standard No. 2 was the first commercial typewriter, refined from the original designs of Christopher Sholes and Carlos S. Glidden. The Remington 2 was an upstriking machine, the carriage held the paper type-side down, and the keys would rise up and strike the paper through the ink ribbon from the bottom. This required typists to raise the carriage if they ever wanted to see what was written. The carriage reads “Keep the machine free from dust. Clean all of the top rods—especially the Shifting rod—with a greasy cloth Every day.” The Remington 2 had a QWERTY keyboard, and its commercial success led to it being adopted as a standard, even as its design was primarily to prevent the type bars from jamming and not to increase typing speed or ease of use.
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: A Nation of Nations
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John M. Ewalt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ER.324140
label: accession number
content: 253647
label: catalog number
content: 324140
label: serial number
content: 61892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in x 16 in; 29.21 cm x 39.37 cm x 40.64 cm