Blickensderfer N°8, 1908, USA

Blickensderfer took its name from its inventor, engineer George Canfield Blickensderfer.

To run his company, he bought a standard typewriter, heavy and bulky. During his train journyes though, he realized how useful a smaller typewriter would have been for businessmen traveling by train; they already existed but they were index typewriters, slow and unreliable.

In 1885 he founded Blickensderfer Mfg. Co and in 1893 the company launched their first typewriter at the Chicago world exhibition, the “Model 1”.

Der Blickensderfer 8 war der erste Blick mit einem Tabulatorsystem, obwohl es Tabulatoren schon länger gab. Es war ein sehr eigenartig aussehender Tabulator, mit großen vernickelten Hebeln, die prominent oben auf der Maschine platziert waren, was die Bedienung sehr einfach machte.