Keaton Music Typewriter
name: label: maker
content: Keaton Music Typewriter Company
notes: label: Description
content: As typewriters developed during the 20th century, a class of music typewriters began to emerge. This is a Keaton Music Typewriter that was invented by Robert H. Keaton of San Francisco, California. Keaton had two patents that covered his music typewriter, the first was given patent number 2,047,690 on July 14, 1936 and related to a 14 key music typewriter, and the second was given number 2,631,712 on March 17, 1953 and covered a 33 key music typewriter. The typewriter’s board held sheet music in place while a semicircle ring of keys containing notes and musical notation typebars could be maneuvered above the sheet music to create musical compositions.
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: Urban Thielmann
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.330212
label: catalog number
content: 330212
label: accession number
content: 287938
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall -case: 6 1/2 in x 22 1/2 in x 18 in; 16.51 cm x 57.15 cm x 45.72 cm