Fox No. 3 Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1904
name: label: maker
content: Fox Typewriter Company, Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This Fox No. 3 Typewriter was manufactured by the Fox Typewriter Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan during the early 1900s. Fox No. 3 is an upstriking machines, with a three row QWERTY keyboard with a fourth top row containing the machine’s number and symbols. The disadvantage of the upstriking machine is that the carriage had to be lifted up for the typist to view her work, slowing the typing process down and obscuring errors.
label: Description
content: The Fox Typewriter Company was founded in 1902 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Fox Typewriter Company was an offspring of the Fox Machine Company, originally produced blind upstriking typewriters before producing a visible typewriter in 1906. World War I created uneasiness in the typewriter market, leading many companies to cease manufacture. The President of the Fox Typewriter Company, William R. Fox, returned to the Fox Machine Company in 1915, but a new Fox Typewriter Company was founded later in the year, buying the company’s patents and factory. The new Fox Typewriter Company produced the Fox portable in 1917 before declaring bankruptcy in 1921.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Grand Rapids
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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: John E. Prince
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.315311
label: catalog number
content: 315311
label: accession number
content: 219759
label: serial number
content: 7424
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 15 1/2 in x 14 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 39.37 cm x 36.195 cm