{"id":153778,"date":"2020-01-31T17:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-museonicolis.leaduser.it\/1908-blickensderfer-n8\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:54:31","slug":"1908-blickensderfer-n8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/1908-blickensderfer-n8\/","title":{"rendered":"Blickensderfer, 1908, N\u00b08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blickensderfer N\u00b08, 1908, USA\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Blickensderfer<\/strong>\u00a0took its name from its inventor, engineer\u00a0George Canfield Blickensderfer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In 1885 he founded Blickensderfer Mfg. Co and in 1893 the company launched their first typewriter at the Chicago world exhibition, the \u201cModel 1\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Blickensderfer Model 8<\/strong> typewriter was introduced in 1908<\/strong>. The attractiveness of the Blickensderfer was its simplified typing mechanism. The patented wheel with characters on it, turned and hit the paper. This wheel had a simpler allignment, it jammed lessand an easier way to change type of character.<\/p>\n

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