Columbia No. 2 Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Columbia Typewriter Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This Columbia No. 2 typewriter was manufactured by the Columbia Typewriter Company of New York after 1886. The typewriter was invented by Charles Spiro, and covered by patent number 322,989 and 335,392. The Columbia typewriter was an index typewriter, meaning that the letters were selected with a pointer, manipulated by the index finger, and imprinted by pressing another key. The absence of the keyboard made the typewriter simpler to operate, but sacrificed speed and efficiency. The machine also had variable spacing, allowing each letter to take up a varying amount of space, for instance, an “I” take up less space than an “M.”
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: George C. Spiro
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.326233
label: catalog number
content: 326233
label: accession number
content: 257824
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 13 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 33.9725 cm x 10.795 cm