IBM Electromatic Typewriter
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Object Details
- International Business Machines Corp.
- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- General Services Administration
- 1941 - 1945
- ID Number
- ME.325366
- catalog number
- 325366
- accession number
- 254085
- serial number
- 11293060
- Object Name
- typewriter
- Other Terms
- typewriter; Standard; Electric
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 16 in x 14 in; 25.4 cm x 40.64 cm x 35.56 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Office Collection
- Typewriters
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_849995
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-8b4f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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