IBM Electromatic Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1941 - 1945
name: label: maker
content: International Business Machines Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: This Electromatic brand typewriter was manufactured by the International Business Machines Corporation beginning in 1935. The Electromatic typewriter was first manufactured in 1924 by the North East Electric Company. The North East Electric Company produced the motor and base, and used a Remington model 12 as the typewriter. The North East Electric Company became the Electromatic Typewriter Company before being purchased by IBM in 1933. In 1935 IBM produced the Electromatic Model 01 for the first time. The Electromatic operated with a motor controlling all aspects of typing, from the type bar to the carriage returns, allowing the user to operate the typewriter without their fingers ever leaving the keyboard.
label: Description
content: This typewriter bears a label from the Rossford Ordnance Depot, a depot in Toledo, Ohio that was used to supply the military with jeeps and cars during World War II.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Office Collection
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: General Services Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.325366
label: catalog number
content: 325366
label: accession number
content: 254085
label: serial number
content: 11293060
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Standard; Electric
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 16 in x 14 in; 25.4 cm x 40.64 cm x 35.56 cm