Item ST 25957 Typewriter - Remington Typewriter Company, Standard No. 10, 1914

Summary

Typewriter of the typebar, front-strike class made by the Remington Typewriter Company of Ilion, New York, U.S.A. in about 1914. The Model No. 10, introduced in 1907, was the first 'visible writer' machine made by Remington in which the typed characters were visible to the operator. All previous models were of the upstrike class in which the characters were typed on the underside of the platen. To see what had been typed the operator had to raise the platen.

In this machine the typebars rest in a horizontal semicircular type-basket in front of the platen and rise to strike the front of the platen. This machine was used by the Industrial and Technological Museum.

Physical Description

Metal frame with black finish. Cylindrical platen on carriage of black-finished metal and plated metal fittings. Curved folding paper guide behind platen. Horizontal semicircular type basket with typebars pivoted at rear. Ink ribbon carried between two spools on horizontal axes, one on each side of type-basket. Four-row QWERTY keyboard with 42 character keys. 'SHIFT LOCK' and 'SHIFT KEY' keys to left of keyboard, 'BACK SPACER' and 'SHIFT KEY' keys to right. All keys are circular, white with black lettering. At top of keyboard are five rectangular black keys with the numbers 1-5 displayed behind respective keys. Spacebar along front of keyboard.