{"id":154197,"date":"2020-01-31T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T11:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-museonicolis.leaduser.it\/1921-hammond-folding-multiplex\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:14:59","slug":"1921-hammond-folding-multiplex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/1921-hammond-folding-multiplex\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammond, 1921, Folding Multiplex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hammond, 1921, Folding Multiplex, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

J. B. Hammond,<\/strong>\u00a0telegrapher during the American Civil War, he was one of the first to realise that a typewriter would be a valid help in his job. E. J. Manning helped Hammond to make the typewriter, which was then patented in 1880 and put on the market in\u00a01881<\/strong>\u00a0by the\u00a0\u201cHammond Typewriter Company\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0in New York.<\/p>\n

Hammond believed the typewriter had to allow the use of different alphabets and languages by simply replacing the typing support.
\nHammond typewriters were characterized by a typing wheel or rather a\u00a0typing shuttle,\u00a0<\/strong>a semicircular rubber (later metal) strip that could be easily replaced.\u00a0\u201cFor every nation, for every language\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was the slogan of\u00a0Hammond<\/strong>\u00a0introduced to highlight the obvious strong point of this machine compared to the rivals: the use of different interchangeable shuttles for different styles, characters and languages.<\/p>\n

The Hammond-Folding<\/strong> model was the last one made. In 1926<\/strong> the Hammond Typewriter Company was sold to Frederick Hepburn Co.<\/strong> The new owners changed the company name into Hammond-Vary-Typer<\/strong> and kept producing Hammond Multiplexes and Foldings under the Varityper<\/strong> name.<\/p>\n

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