Royal Key Model

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Description:

This model of a Royal Typewriter Company typewriter key demonstrates the key and type bar action in Royal Typewriters.

The Royal Typewriter Company was founded in 1906 by Thomas Fortunes Ryan and Edward B. Hess, with Ryan providing the capital and Hess providing the inventiveness. Hess owned over 150 patents, many of which were assigned to the Royal Typewriter Company. Hess’s most noteworthy patents related to increasing the ease of typing, including an accelerating typebar, anti friction roller escapement, Magic Margins, and selective touch control. In 1954 Royal merged with the McBee Corporation, operating as Royal Mcbee until 1964. In 1964 Royal McBee was acquired by Litton Industries, which used Royal as a brand until 1968.

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Work and Industry: Mechanisms, Typewriters, Computers & Business Machines

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Credit Line: Royal Typewriter Company, Inc.

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: ME.311045Catalog Number: 311045Accession Number: 136502

Object Name: typewriter, part of

Measurements: overall: 10 1/2 in x 5 in x 12 in; 26.67 cm x 12.7 cm x 30.48 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-9553-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_850051

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