World Typewriter
notes: label: Description
content: This World Typewriter was manufactured by the World Type Writer Company of Portland, Maine, between 1887 and 1893. The machine was invented by John Becker, and received patent number 350,717 on October 12th, 1886. The World was an index typewriter, meaning that the letters could be selected with the 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
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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: Charles E. Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.316725
label: catalog number
content: 316725
label: accession number
content: 227587
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 12 3/4 in x 13 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 32.385 cm x 33.655 cm