Royal Standard Typewriter
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content: This Royal Standard Typewriter was manufactured by the Royal Typewriter Company of New York, New York beginning in 1906. This typewriter is the original Royal Standard model, which was soon followed by a Royal Standard model number 1. The Royal Standard typewriter was a flatbed model with a QWERTY keyboard that featured visible writing. Early typewriters had upwards striking typebars that required the typist to lift the carriage to see what they had written.
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content: The Royal Typewriter Company was founded in 1906 by Thomas Fortunes Ryan and Edward B. Hess, with Ryan providing the capital and Hess providing the inventiveness. Hess owned over 150 patents, many of which were assigned to the Royal Typewriter Company. Hess’s most noteworthy patents related to increasing the ease of typing, including an accelerating typebar, anti friction roller escapement, Magic Margins, and selective touch control. In 1954 Royal merged with the McBee Corporation, operating as Royal Mcbee until 1964. In 1964 Royal McBee was acquired by Litton Industries, which used Royal as a brand until 1968.
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: Esther S. and James C. Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0201.04
label: accession number
content: 1982.0201
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0201.04
label: serial number
content: 15995
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 17 in x 14 in; 19.05 cm x 43.18 cm x 35.56 cm