Corona Silent Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1934
name: label: maker
content: Smith & Corona Typewriters
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Smith & Corona Silent typewriter manufactured by around 1934. The model was made to be portable, and operate quietly thanks to the Smith Floating Shift used in the machine (note the cursive word “Floating” above the shift key). When the shift key was invented, it originally shifted the cylinder, or platen, to be struck in a new position by the capital letters on a typebar. The floating shift moved the typebars up and down instead, allowing for a smoother typing action. The four row keyboard has a QWERTY layout.
label: Description
content: The success of the Standard Typewriter Company’s Corona model typewriter prompted the company to change its named to the Corona Typewriting Company in 1914. In 1926 the company joined with the L. C. Smith & Brothers Typewriting company in to become Smith-Corona. Smith-Corona manufactured typewriters and typewriter accessories throughout the 20th century, becoming Smith Corona Marchant in 1958. After two bankruptcies, Smith Corona returned to operation in 2010 as a thermal paper manufacturing company.
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: Immaculata School
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.336760
label: catalog number
content: 336760
label: accession number
content: 1978.2479
label: serial number
content: 50911
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Portable; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 12 1/2 in x 12 in; 15.24 cm x 31.75 cm x 30.48 cm