{"id":144593,"date":"2020-03-04T17:28:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-museonicolis.leaduser.it\/1910-bennett\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:41:20","slug":"1910-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/1910-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett, 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bennett, 1910, USA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Bennett<\/strong> was a typewriter made in 1910 by Bennett Typewriter Company, owned by Charles Almon Bennett. It is the smallest typewriter<\/strong> with a full keyboard ever made.<\/p>\n

The previous model, the Junior, introduced in 1907, did not have a paper support, it had ink rollers and problems of allignment.<\/p>\n

The Bennett was born to solve these problems: the rollers were replaced by reels, a foldable support for the paper was added and the alignment problems were no longer present.<\/p>\n

The advertisements at the time praised it as the most compact portable typewriters, with a fully-working keyboard made with the best materials. All this for the low price of 18<\/strong> dollars.<\/p>\n

Writing with the Bennett was far from being simple: the keys were too close to each other and it often led to typing errors and wrist aches because of the uncomfortable position of the hands.<\/p>\n

An interesting detail concerns the keys movements: if for example I press the “Q” letter, even the “A” and “Z” (the letters under the Q) go down. This applies to the every letter pressed.<\/p>\n

The QWERTY keyboard is capable of typing 84 characters.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n