{"id":2550,"date":"2010-03-23T13:35:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:35:58","slug":"the-singer-sewing-machine-of-typewriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=2550","title":{"rendered":"The Singer Sewing Machine of Typewriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pic-underwood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2549\" title=\"pic-underwood\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pic-underwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/antiquetypewriters.com\/index.htm\">Martin Howard Collection of Early Typewriters:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Underwood Typewriter was the first widely successful, modern typewriter. It pulled together the two main design elements that would be found on all later machines, a four-row keyboard with front strike type-bars, giving visible typing. The Underwood was not the first to offer these essential features, but it was by far the best engineered machine to have done so by 1896.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Franz Wagner, a German immigrant, sold his invention to the John Underwood &amp; Co., a major supplier of typewriter ribbons. The first model, shown above, still maintained Wagner&#8217;s name stenciled onto the back of the frame. The Underwood Model No. 5 remained remained in production from 1900 to the early 1930&#8217;s, making it the &#8220;Singer Sewing machine of typewriters&#8221;, with many machines surviving.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next ten years all blind-writers (understrike) and index typewriters would be dropped from the market. The Wild West of typewriters was over!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1999 &#8211; 2010, Martin Howard<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Martin Howard Collection of Early Typewriters: The Underwood Typewriter was the first widely successful, modern typewriter. It pulled together the two main design elements that would be found on all later machines, a four-row keyboard with front strike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=2550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,510,824],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antique-typewriters","tag-martin-howard-typewriters","tag-typewriters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}