Williams No. 6 Typewriter
name: label: maker
content: Williams Typewriter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Williams No. 6 typewriter that was manufactured by the Williams Typewriter Company of New York between 1904 and 1909. John N. Williams received patent number 501753 on July 18, 1893 for his type-writing machine invention. Prior to William’s design, most typewriters were blind-writing upstriking machines, forcing the typist to lift the platen to see their work. Williams’s design allowed for visible writing with an intriguing “grasshopper” typing mechanism. The typebars were arranged in two semi-circles around the platen and rested on an inking pad. When their key was struck, the typebar rose up and sprung forward to hit the paper, printing a visible line.
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: Frank H. Huffstetler, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.326647
label: catalog number
content: 326647
label: accession number
content: 261226
label: serial number
content: 41312
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 16 1/2 in x 13 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 41.91 cm x 33.655 cm