{"id":8918,"date":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museonicolis.com\/?p=8918"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:03:13","slug":"hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammond, 1892, N\u00b02"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hammond N\u00b02, 1892, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

J. B. Hammond,<\/strong> telegrapher 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 1881<\/strong> by the \u201cHammond Typewriter Company\u201d<\/strong> in 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 typing shuttle, <\/strong>a semicircular rubber (later metal) strip that could be easily replaced. “For every nation, for every language”<\/strong> was the slogan of Hammond<\/strong> introduced 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

Curios<\/strong>: The Hammond n. 2 is different from the Model 1, as it does not have the wooden cover. It has the typical typing design \u201cfrom behind\u201d<\/strong> with a vulcanite shuttle available in 42 different types and 14 different languages.<\/p>\n

The \u201cIdeal\u201d<\/strong> keyboard was not very successful among the public, which is why this model is now a much rarer collector\u2019s item than models with the \u201cStandard\u201d keyboard.<\/p>\n

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