Crown Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1894
name: label: maker
content: National Meter Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This linear index Crown typewriter was manufactured by the National Meter Company of New York, New York around 1894. The Crown typewriter had a design invented by Byron Brooks that was awarded patent number 272,023 on February 13, 1883. A letter could be selected with the pointer, and could be printed in uppercase by pressing the right “CAP” button. The left “FIG” key was pressed to print the associated symbol selected by the pointer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.181137
label: catalog number
content: 181137
label: accession number
content: 25588
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: Typewriter; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 11 3/4 in x 9 in; 11.43 cm x 29.845 cm x 22.86 cm