Object Details
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Description
- The IBM Model D electric typewriter was produced in the spring of 1967 in both a regular and executive versions. The Model D Executive featured proportional spacing originally introduced in IBM’s Model B Executive typewriter. Instead of every character taking exactly the same space on the page, thin letters received narrower space, and wide letters got wider space. Other features of the Model D included a "control row" above the keyboard that allowed the user to adjust the margins, the tab settings, and the ribbon position.
- Originally founded in as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911, IBM began its venture into typewriter manufacturing with the acquisition of the Electromatic Typewriter Company in 1933. In 1935 IBM produced its first electric typewriter, the Model 01, which IBM considered a commercial success. IBM continued producing typewriters throughout the 20th century until 1990.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Mrs. Helen A. Hess
- ID Number
- 1984.0499.01
- accession number
- 1984.0499
- catalog number
- 1984.0499.01
- serial number
- 83851122
- Object Name
- typewriter
- Other Terms
- typewriter; Electric
- Measurements
- typewriter: 9 1/4 in x 25 in x 16 in; 23.495 cm x 63.5 cm x 40.64 cm
- location of prior holder
- United States: Maryland, Rockville
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Typewriters
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_856656
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-b0ed-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
