Hartford Typewriter
name: label: associated person
content: Fairfield, John M.
notes: label: Description
content: This Hartford No. 2 typewriter was manufactured by the Hartford Typewriter Company of Hartford, Connecticut between 1896 and 1901. The Hartford was a blind-writing typewriter with upstriking typebars, with an interesting lever and rod connection between the keys and the typebars, seen in patent number 553,515 from January 28, 1896. The machine prominently featured a double keyboard, allowing it to print both upper case and lower case letters. In a time where visible typewriters with shift keys were being brought to market, a blind-writing double-keyed Hartford was behind the times and the company soon filed for bankruptcy.
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: Fred J. Clark
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.329981
label: catalog number
content: 329981
label: accession number
content: 283426
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 14 in x 19 in; 20.32 cm x 35.56 cm x 48.26 cm