Royal Key Model
notes: label: Description
content: This model of a Royal Typewriter Company typewriter key demonstrates the key and type bar action in Royal Typewriters.
label: Description
content: The Royal Typewriter Company was founded in 1906 by Thomas Fortunes Ryan and Edward B. Hess, with Ryan providing the capital and Hess providing the inventiveness. Hess owned over 150 patents, many of which were assigned to the Royal Typewriter Company. Hess’s most noteworthy patents related to increasing the ease of typing, including an accelerating typebar, anti friction roller escapement, Magic Margins, and selective touch control. In 1954 Royal merged with the McBee Corporation, operating as Royal Mcbee until 1964. In 1964 Royal McBee was acquired by Litton Industries, which used Royal as a brand until 1968.
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: Royal Typewriter Company, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.311045
label: catalog number
content: 311045
label: accession number
content: 136502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter, part of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 5 in x 12 in; 26.67 cm x 12.7 cm x 30.48 cm