Remington Standard No. 6 Typewriter
name: label: maker
content: Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict
notes: label: Description
content: The Remington Standard Number 6 typewriter was manufactured by the Standard Typewriter Company around 1894. The Remington Standard Typewriter is a descendant of the Sholes & Glidden typewriter, most notably in its use of the type-bar basket, its upstriking action, and the three row QWERTY keyboard with a fourth top row of numerals.
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. 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: Victor Comptometer Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.323598
label: catalog number
content: 323598
label: accession number
content: 250163
label: serial number
content: 148718
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 16 in x 16 in; 25.4 cm x 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm