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DESCRIPTION Salter 'Visible' Standard typewriter
MANUFACTURER Salter & Co, West Bromwich, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Christopher Latham Scholes (1819-1890), American
DATE c.1913
MATERIAL Steel, wood, print, rubber, paint, textile
DIMENSIONS 255x360x398
PROVENANCE Gift from Ideal Wire Mattress Co., Hay Mill in 1976.
LOCATION MCC
CAT. NO 1973.S.02670 | |
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‘Salter Visible’ Standard typewriter | © Thinktank Trust | Stored at the Museum Collections Centre - look out for public open days
Have you ever thought about why we use the QWERTY keyboard with our computers? It comes from the typewriter.
As the culture of writing increased from 1700, inventors devised mechanical writing machines. Christopher Latham Scholes developed the first successful typewriter in 1868. Soon they were manufactured in many countries including this British Salter Visible made by Salter & Co in Birmingham, Great Britain. The typewriter was probably the most significant business tool before computers, but there have also been many other ways to communicate... MORE |
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