typewriter
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact83395
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV007.30.1
- Description
- Full-keyboard upstrike Smith Premier No. 2 typewriter made by Smith Premier Typewriter Company, 1904. It features a double keyboard, with rows of lowercase letters at the bottom and uppercase letters at the top. It includes typewriter, carrying lid, wooden platform, two typewriter ribbon spools, and an unrelated box that holds the spools.
- Object History
- Donor found object in an old building in Vancouver, ca. late 1950's - early 1960's. Smith Premier manufactured double keyboards until 1921, long after their competitors had introduced the "Shift" key which allowed each key to type both an upper and lowercase letter.
- Reference
- http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/index.php3?machine=smithpr1&cat=ku
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- New York
- Site/City Made
- Syracuse
- Subjects
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment - Typewriters
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typewriter
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact85679
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV016.5.1
- Description
- Blickensderfer No. 7 portable typewriter in a wooden case, 1897.
- Object History
- The Model 7, offered in 1897, became the deluxe version of the basic design. Blickensderfer typewriters feature a keyboard with a "DHIATENSOR" layout (the sequence of letters on the bottomr row), even though the QWERTY keyboard was becoming the standard keyboard layout. Instead of typebars, they had a type cylinder which allowed an operator to change the typeface by replacing the cylinder.
- Reference
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blickensderfer_typewriter
- http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/index.php3?machine=blick7&cat=ks
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