Royal Model KMM Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1940
name: label: maker
content: Royal Typewriter Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Royal Typewriter Company manufactured this Royal Magic Margin typewriter around 1940. The typewriter’s patented Magic Margin design allowed the typist to set both the left and right hand margins with a simple push of a lever. With easy margin-switching, the Royal KMM could easily address envelopes, tabulate figures, and create tables.
label: Description
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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Royal Typewriter Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.311904
label: accession number
content: 156624
label: catalog number
content: 311904
label: serial number
content: 2557008
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 10 in x 14 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 25.4 cm x 36.83 cm