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Anderson Shorthand (ca.1887-1914)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: T-012 Anderson's shorthand machines allowed two or more keys to be pressed simultaneously, a method known as "chording," and were the first shorthand prototypes to use English (Roman) characters instead of codes in dots and dashes.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 5

Blickensderfer No. 5 (ca.1894)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: T-004 All Blickensderfers are visible 3-row bank lightweight keyboard machines with typewheels instead of type bars. This very successful machine was the first truly portable typewriter.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 10

Blickensderfer No. 6 (ca.1897)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: T-005 The No. 6 has a universal ("QWERTY") keyboard. Blicks were sold either with a "QWERTY" arrangement or the "Scientific" keyboard. The Scientific keyboard had "DHIATENSOR" on the bottom row, closest to the typist.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 11

Blickensderfer No. 7 (ca.1897-1907)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: T-006 The No. 7 is the same basic machine as the No. 5 and No. 6, despite its spacebar that wraps around the keyboard. All Blicks had an interchangeable typewheel drum. A Blick could thereby type in many font styles and languages.

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Donor: Rosenthal, Henry & Barbara
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 12

Brother 12 Typewriter (1974)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: L-023 This electric typewriter was made in Japan and came with a ten-year warranty. The unique design of the ribbon allows it to make corrections. The ribbon is comprised of fifty percent ink and fifty percent correction material, which are linked between two spools. As the user types, the used ribbon travels from the first spool to the second in the same fashion that manual typewriters functioned. Donated by Robert Congleton, Rider class of 1978.

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Donor: Congleton, Robert J.
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 42

Brother GX9500
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: The Brother GX9500 was used in the 1980s.

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Donor: Procaccino, J. Drew
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 28410

Cole-Steel model no. 2
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: COLE-STEEL typewriters were manufactured in West Germany beginning in1957. They were produced for only a few years. The three basic models (2,3,4) of the COLE-STEEL were imported by the Cole Steel Equipment Company and distributed through office furniture dealers. Model no. 2 has 43 character keys and no ribbon selector for different typing colors. It includes a switch under the top cover to convert to producing stencils.

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Donor: Kathryn Holden
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 29603

Corona Portable typewriter (1927) (Black)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: The Corona Portable Typewriter came with a ribbon indicator, color change lever and stencil device for color and position control. The model in the collection was purchased in 1927 by Robert J. Stewart, Rider College class of 1933. The typewriter was used by Mr. Stewart until his death on 11-01-2005. Typewriter was donated by Robert's son Charles.

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Donor: Stewart, Charles
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 19534

Corona Portable typewriter (1927) (green)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: Manual typewriter produced by L.C. Smith Y Corona Typewriters Inc.

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Donor: Seckendorf, Sylvia
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 28549

Corona Special
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

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Donor: Levitt, Ronald S.
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 29863

Dictaphone (1980s, model:1880)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Business Machines (MSC.)

Description: The Dictaphone was an electronic dictating machine used to record and transcribe letters, minutes and other messages. The Dictaphone came with earphones and a foot petal to start and stop the recording, freeing the user's hands for typing. This particular model was used by various secretaries at The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning, Inc. (ASHRAE). It was last utilized by ASHRAE Executive Vice President Frank M. Coda (EVP 1980-2004) to dictate his meeting notes onto mini-cassettes for his secretary to transcribe.

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Donor: Cindy Michaels of ASHRAE
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 29121

Edison Envoy Voicewriter (ca.1951)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Business Machines (MSC.)

Description: T-020 This is a magnetic tape dictating machine. Edison's Voicewriter division, along with Dictaphone, Gray, Soundscriber and Peirce dominated the U.S. market for dictation machines in the 1950's.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 28

Edison's Mimeograph No. 12 (ca.1900)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Business Machines (MSC.)

Description: T-023 A.B. Dick developed a duplication process based on waxed wrapping paper which he called the "mimeograph." Thomas A. Edison assisted Dick in his final designs and the machine was eventually marketed as "The Edison Mimeograph" by the A.B. Dick Company from 1890 to 1920.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 13

Electro-Mechanical Calculator (ca. 1960)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Business Machines (MSC.)

Description: T-019 The first motor-driven calculating machine was designed in 1902 by Alexander Rechnitzer of Czechoslovakia. In 1922, Monroe sold an electric version of its model-K calculating machine. By the 1940's the electric motor-driven mechanical calculator was a common desktop tool in business and engineering offices.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 3

Facit Portable
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Misc. Business Machines

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Donor: Procassino, J. Drew
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 28411

Gregg/Kee Simulator Trainer (ca. 1972)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: T-017 Model 40-72 The Simulator was designed to teach touch typewriting. It had an illuminated visual display above the keyboard. By feeding in a punched tape computer program, letters and numbers lit up on the visual display. The typist turned off the lights by pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard. The machine tracked the number of correct keystrokes made. Various levels of programs were sold, remedial through skill development.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 1

Hammond Multiplex (ca. 1915)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Misc. Business Machines

Description: T-002 The Hammond model used a "strike-from-behind" design. Multiplex referred to the two type shuttles mounted on the machine which permitted the typist to quickly switch between alternate typefaces (i.e., normal and italic).

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 16

Hermes 3000
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

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Donor: Barnes, John
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 28550

Hermes Portable model #5126157
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: Hermes portable typewriter manufactured in Switzerland. Used by Josef Korngruen.

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Donor: Korngruen, Joesf
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 28551

IBM 402 Accounting Machine Panel Board
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Business Machines (MSC.)

Description: This panel board for an IBM Accounting Machine was used at Princeton High School into the late 1970s for keeping attendance records. The panel worked with punched cards on which were punched information on names, figures and totals for attendance. The machine also sorted the information alphabetically. the 402 Accounting Machine was an immediate precursor to the computer.

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Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 36

IBM Correcting Selectric (ca.1973)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: L-003 IBM replaced the type bar with a ball-like element on its electric typewriter in 1961. The Selectric had an especially unique feature: the ball head moved back and forth while the carriage was completely stationary. The mechanical principle of the Selectric can be traced back to the Blickensderfers of the 19th century.

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Donor: Tellez, Regina
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 37

IBM Electric typewriter Model 11C (ca. 1956) (Green version)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: The IBM Model 11C Typewriter was introduced in 1959, selling over a quarter million models in its first 19 months of production. This model came with 28 new productivity enhancements, including personal touch control. Pastel colors were introduced in 1952 for the model 11A.

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Donor: Miller, Dr. & Mrs. Jay
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 18801

IBM Electric typewriter Model 11C (ca. 1959) (Gray Version with Black Keys)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: The IBM Model C Typewriter was introduced in 1959, selling over a quarter million models in its first 19 months of production. This model came with 28 new productivity enhancements, including personal touch control.

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Donor: Miller, Dr. & Mrs. Jay
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 18802

IBM Electric Typewriter model 11C (ca. 1959) (Gray Version with Gray Keys)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

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Donor: Barnes, John A.
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 28554

IBM Electric typewriter model A (ca. 1948)
Main Collection: Historic Business Machines
Sub Collection: Historic Typewriters

Description: L-004 During World War II, IBM devoted most of its manufacturing to the war effort. After the war the company reinvesting heavily in typewriters. The Model 11A Standard Electric Typewriter was introduced in 1948. It featured a carriage return, back space, tabulator and shift all operated with a finger tip touch. Other enhancements included a "multiple-copy control" for legible carbon copies and stencils. In 1952 more enhancements were created, including changeable typebars and models available in pastel colors. The Model 11A remained the staple of IBM's typewriter product line until 1954.

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Donor: Miller, Dr. & Mrs. Jay
Location: Historic Business Machines
Archive ID: 33