Sholes & Schwalbach Patent Model for Improvement in Type-Writing Machines
date: label: date made
content: ca 1872
label: patent granted by United States Patent Office
content: 1876-09-09
name: label: licensee
content: Sholes, C. Latham
label: licensee
content: Schwalbach, Matthias
label: patentee
content: Sholes, C. Latham
label: patentee
content: Schwalbach, Matthias
notes: label: Description
content: Inventors C. Latham Sholes and Matthias Schwalback of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, submitted this typewriter model with their patent application for an improved up strike key lever mechanism for printing onto paper. The inventors received number 182,511 on September 9, 1876. The typewriter has two rows of keys in roughly alphabetical layout as well as the numbers 7 and 8. When struck, the keys would rise up and hit the piece of paper lying horizontally on the platen of the typewriter. The carriage would have to be lifted for the typist to see their typed words.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Typewriter
label: Subject
content: Office Machines
label: Subject
content: Invention
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Invention and the Patent Model
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0359.02
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0359.02
label: accession number
content: 1981.0359
label: patent number
content: 182511
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Object Name
content: patent model, typewriter
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Manual
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 11 in; 24.13 cm x 19.05 cm x 27.94 cm