Remington Standard No. 6 Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1904
name: label: maker
content: Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict
notes: label: Description
content: This Remington Standard Model Number 6 typewriter was manufactured by the Remington Standard Typewriter Company around 1894. The Model Number 6 contained many improvements to Remington’s previous models including an improved cylinder, improved spacing mechanism, improved paper carriage, and adjustable paper guides. Many of these improvements were due to the inventiveness of Remington mechanist George B. Webb.
label: Description
content: The first commercially successful typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden and manufactured by gunmakers E. Remington and Sons in 1874 in Ilion, New York. The typewriters manufactured by E. Remington and Sons had been sold by the company Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict since 1882. In 1886 E. Remington and Sons sold the entirety of their typewriter interests to Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict manufactured their typewriters under the Remington Standard Typewriter Company name beginning in 1892. The company became the Remington Typewriter Company in 1902, before merging with the Rand Kardex Company in 1927 to become Remington Rand. The Remington Rand plaque on the typewriter would have been a later addition to the Standard No. 6. Remington Rand continued to sell typewriters until around 1955, when it was acquired by the Sperry Corporation.
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: Remington Rand, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.311041
label: catalog number
content: 311041
label: accession number
content: 136288
label: serial number
content: 123640
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 15 3/8 in x 16 1/8 in; 26.67 cm x 39.0525 cm x 40.9575 cm