Champion Index Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1891
name: label: maker
content: Garvin Machine Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Champion typewriter was manufactured by the Champion Typewriter Company of New York, New York during the 1890s. The Champion was invented by Byron Alden Brooks, and succeeded his People’s model typewriter that he invented in 1889. Brook’s invention can be seen in patent number 476,942 granted in June 14, 1892. Both the People’s and the Champion were index typewriters, meaning that the letters were selected with a pointer, manipulated by the index finger, and imprinted with another key. The absence of the keyboard made the typewriter simpler to operate, but sacrificed speed and efficiency.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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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: Fred W. Meade
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.318166
label: catalog number
content: 318166
label: accession number
content: 229771
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 11 in x 8 in; 11.43 cm x 27.94 cm x 20.32 cm