Automatic
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1881 - 1883
label: date made
content: 1881 - 1883
name: label: maker
content: Hamilton Typewriter Company
notes: label: Description
content: Small brass machine weighing approximately 11 pounds. Standard universal keyboard with 3 rows of 48 keys. An upstroke machine with type arranged in an enclosed circular case, which strikes up through a small hole in the center of the case to the under side of the platen. Type bars measure only 1 1/2" long. Key for every character, capital letters only.
label: Description
content: Similar to the Sholes & Glidden and Remington. Probably the first attempt at portables. Also produced under name of Hamilton Manu. for a few years, disontinuing in 1883. This machine was made in the factory of the American Watch Tool Manufacturing Co., Waltham, Mass. Invented and produced in 1881 by Emery M. Hamilton of Brooklyn, New York, who received the patent on February 15, 1887.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Remington Rand Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.311142
label: catalog number
content: 311142
label: accession number
content: 140913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: Typewriter; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - type writer: 4 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 29.21 cm x 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - cover: 4 3/4 in x 13 in x 10 in; 12.06754 cm x 33.02 cm x 25.4 cm