Blickensderfer No. 6 Portable Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
label: date made
content: 1895
name: label: maker
content: Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is the case for the Blickensder No. 6 typewriter. The Blickensderfer typewriter No. 6 was manufactured by the Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company of Stamford, Connecticut from 1910 to around 1928. The Blickenderfer No. 6 was essentially the Blickensderfer No. 5 in an aluminum frame, and could be ordered with either a standard QWERTY keyboard or a DHIATENSOR keyboard. Blickensderfer called the latter their “scientific” keyboard because the most used letters—“D, H, I, A, T, E, N, S, O, and R”—were on the bottom row nearest the space bar to minimize necessary hand movement. The aluminum frame of the No. 6 made it exceptionally portable, weighing only 5 pounds, and came in a leatherette case for easy carrying, seen here.
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: Gift of Thomas H. Dawson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.310701.B
label: catalog number
content: 310701.B
label: accession number
content: 125450
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter case
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 12 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 31.75 cm x 24.13 cm