Corona Silent Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: maker
content: L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Smith & Corona Silent typewriter manufactured by around 1934. The model was made to be portable, and operate quietly thanks to the Smith Floating Shift used in the machine (note the cursive word “Floating” above the shift key). When the shift key was introduced in the Remington No. 2 in 1878, it originally shifted the cylinder, or platen, to be struck in a new position by the capital letters on a typebar. The floating shift moved the typebars up and down instead, allowing for a smoother typing action. The four row keyboard has a QWERTY layout.
label: Description
content: The Standard Typewriter Company released their Corona model typewriter in 1912. Its success prompted the company to change its name to the Corona Typewriting Company in 1914. In 1926 the company joined with the L. C. Smith & Brothers Typewriting company in to become Smith-Corona.
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: Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.334782
label: catalog number
content: 334782
label: accession number
content: 314637
label: serial number
content: 2S 70436
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Portable; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 13 1/4 in x 13 in; 13.97 cm x 33.655 cm x 33.02 cm