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Underwood Standard Company Inc.,USA, Typewriter, maggio 1917.
Underwood Standard Company Inc.,USA, Typewriter, maggio 1917.
Cm. 30,5x46.
Macchina da scrivere. Corpo in metallo. Funzionante. Buono stato di conservazione.
Note
"In the early 1890s, Franz X Wagner, a German immigrant, engineered the first reliable ""visible"" typewriter that allowed the typist to see the text as they typed. Wagner had already designed several earlier typing machines. John T. Underwood, producer of office supplies such as carbon paper and ribbons, purchased Wagner's design and manufactured it as the Underwood Model 1 in 1895. Unlike earlier machines, which had an up strike type bar from underneath the paper, the new design in
After six years and two other models that improved touch, and tab function and provided quieter operation, Underwood came out with the Model 5 in 1900. Compared to earlier machines of the 1870s, this machine is plain" National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.