IBM Model D Executive Typewriter
name: label: maker
content: International Business Machines Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The IBM Model D electric typewriter was produced in the spring of 1967 in both a regular and executive versions. The Model D Executive featured proportional spacing originally introduced in IBM’s Model B Executive typewriter. Instead of every character taking exactly the same space on the page, thin letters received narrower space, and wide letters got wider space. Other features of the Model D included a "control row" above the keyboard that allowed the user to adjust the margins, the tab settings, and the ribbon position.
label: Description
content: Originally founded in as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911, IBM began its venture into typewriter manufacturing with the acquisition of the Electromatic Typewriter Company in 1933. In 1935 IBM produced its first electric typewriter, the Model 01, which IBM considered a commercial success. IBM continued producing typewriters throughout the 20th century until 1990.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: Maryland, Rockville
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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: Mrs. Helen A. Hess
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0499.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0499
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0499.01
label: serial number
content: 83851122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Electric
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: typewriter: 9 1/4 in x 25 in x 16 in; 23.495 cm x 63.5 cm x 40.64 cm