Hall Index Typewriter
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Object Details
- Hall Typewriter Co.
- Description
- Thomas Hall was awarded patent number 238,387 on March 1, 1881 for his “Type-Writer” design represented in this typewriter. The Hall Typewriter was manufactured by the Hall Typewriter Company of New York, New York, beginning in 1881. The company moved from New York to Salem in 1887, then Boston in 1889, producing a similar model typewriter in all three locations. This Salem variant of the Hall index typewriter began to be produced in 1887. Index typewriters have no keyboard—the characters are selected by a pointer system. In the Hall index typewriter each hole on the grid corresponds to a character, pushing the key through the hole imprints the letter on the page and shifts the page over one space. This typewriter is contained in a wooden carrying case, with a metal handle and a metal plaque that bears the image of a feather with the inscription “HALL TYPE WRITER Co./TRADEMARK/SALEM, MASS.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Dorothy Hall Armstrong
- ID Number
- ME.314603
- catalog number
- 314603
- accession number
- 205421
- Object Name
- typewriter
- Other Terms
- typewriter; Manual
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/8 in x 15 3/8 in x 9 in; 10.4775 cm x 39.0525 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Typewriters
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_850013
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-7ab0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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