Hermes Baby Rocket Typewriter
notes: label: Description
content: This portable Hermes Baby Rocket brand typewriter was manufactured by Hermes-Presica, a division of Paillard Incorporated, around 1966. Paillard Incorporated was based in Switzerland, but the factory that produced this typewriter was located in Sackingen, Germany. Hermes manufactured a variety of typewriter models under both the “Baby” and “Rocket” brand name, and the design was so popular that it was licensed to several other manufacturers. This Rocket typewriter was a portable version that came with a case cover and handle. Hermes advertised that the green color of their machines was found to be “the most relaxing to the eye…least likely to interfere with the operator’s efficiency.”
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0185.01
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0185.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0185
label: serial number
content: 9041458
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 11 3/4 in x 13 in; 7.62 cm x 29.845 cm x 33.02 cm