Remington Standard No. 6 Typewriter

Description:

This Remington Standard Model Number 6 typewriter was manufactured by the Remington Standard Typewriter Company around 1894. The Model Number 6 contained many improvements to Remington’s previous models including an improved cylinder, improved spacing mechanism, improved paper carriage, and adjustable paper guides. Many of these improvements were due to the inventiveness of Remington mechanist George B. Webb.

The first commercially successful typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden and manufactured by gunmakers E. Remington and Sons in 1874 in Ilion, New York. The typewriters manufactured by E. Remington and Sons had been sold by the company Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict since 1882. In 1886 E. Remington and Sons sold the entirety of their typewriter interests to Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict manufactured their typewriters under the Remington Standard Typewriter Company name beginning in 1892. The company became the Remington Typewriter Company in 1902, before merging with the Rand Kardex Company in 1927 to become Remington Rand. The Remington Rand plaque on the typewriter would have been a later addition to the Standard No. 6. Remington Rand continued to sell typewriters until around 1955, when it was acquired by the Sperry Corporation.

Date Made: ca 1904

Maker: Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict

Location: Currently not on view

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Credit Line: Remington Rand, Inc.

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: ME.311041Catalog Number: 311041Accession Number: 136288Serial Number: 123640

Object Name: typewriterOther Terms: typewriter; Standard; Manual

Measurements: overall: 10 1/2 in x 15 3/8 in x 16 1/8 in; 26.67 cm x 39.0525 cm x 40.9575 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-9870-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_850053

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