I'm an old Crandall New Model typewriter and said to be "one of the most beautiful typewriters ever made." I have a wonderful curved and ornate Victorian design and am lavishly decorated with hand painted roses, accented with inlaid mother-of-pearl!
Lucien S. Crandall was born in Broome County New York in 1844. He would become one of the great early typewriter pioneers during the 1860s and 1870s. He patented perhaps ten typewriters with six or so being manufactured. All of his designs are very intriguing and brilliantly imagined machines. The Crandall - New Model was his third typewriter to be manufactured but the first to have some success in sales. The Crandall was the first typewriter to print from a single element or "type-sleeve", well before IBM's 'Golf ball' of 1961. The Crandall's type-sleeve is a cylinder, about the size of your finger, which rotates and rises up one or two positions before striking the roller, achieving 84 characters with only 28 keys. The type-sleeve is easy to remove, allowing for change of font style and character size. One might well wonder why type-cylinder typewriters did not become the standard over typebar typewriters prior to the 1961 Selectric. The reason was speed. Even though typebars are many separate hammers striking away, each hammer has a very simple and quick action. In contrast, a type-cylinder is moved by a more complicated mechanical dance, which reduces its speed to respond to the keys being struck. The IBM “golf ball” was able to move very fast because it was light, well designed, and driven by an electric motor.
other vintage typewriters:
interesting typewriter facts:
* the typewriter and computers today use the same key layout
* the longest word that could be typed on a typewriter with only the left hand is stewardesses
* on a typewriter, surprisingly typewriter is one of the longest words able to be typed using one row of letters
* Christopher Latham Sholes intentionally placed letters apart to slow down typing so jamming would not occur
* the earliest typewriters would have a bell to warn the typist that the was near the end of the paper
* every single typewriter was different in its own way, none of them were exactly the same
* Jack
Kerouac, a fast typist at 100 words per minute, typed On the Road on a roll of
paper so he would not be interrupted by having to change the paper; within two
weeks of starting to write On the Road, Kerouac had one single-spaced
paragraph, 120 feet long
* as
of 2009, typewriters were still used by some U.S. government agencies, in
fact, in 2008, New York City spent almost $1,000,000 to purchase a few thousand
typewriters for use by the New York police department – mainly to type property
and evidence vouchers on carbon paper forms
Jack
Kerouac, a fast typist at 100 words per minute, typed On the Road on a
roll of paper so he would not be interrupted by having to change the
paper. Within two weeks of starting to write On the Road, Kerouac had
one single-spaced paragraph, 120 feet lon - See more at:
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Jack
Kerouac, a fast typist at 100 words per minute, typed On the Road on a
roll of paper so he would not be interrupted by having to change the
paper. Within two weeks of starting to write On the Road, Kerouac had
one single-spaced paragraph, 120 feet lon - See more at:
http://petitev.com/category/typewriter-facts/#sthash.aL5u3pSu.dpuf
Jack
Kerouac, a fast typist at 100 words per minute, typed On the Road on a
roll of paper so he would not be interrupted by having to change the
paper. Within two weeks of starting to write On the Road, Kerouac had
one single-spaced paragraph, 120 feet lon - See more at:
http://petitev.com/category/typewriter-facts/#sthash.aL5u3pSu.dpuf
(facts found at Typewriter and Petite V)
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