Touch Method Instruction Book For Remington Portable Typewriters , And, Touch Method Instructor for Remington Portable and Desk Model Typewriters

Remington Rand Inc.

Published by Remington Rand, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 1935

About this Item

B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized instruction book and Instructors booklet, along with a glassine envelope for the two. The booklets are in Very Good- condition and were issued without dust jackets. The glassine envelope is in Poor condition, with large tears, chips missing and general wear and tear. The cover of the instruction book has toning and rubbing, along with a couple of small creases and and edge wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The instructors manual is in generally clean, bright condition. Laid-in are a couple of typewritten pages showing lessons for pupils. "On June 23, 1868 a patent was granted to Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule for a "Type-Writer" which was eventually developed into the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first device that allowed an operator to type substantially faster than a person could write by hand. The patent (U. S. 79,265) was sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E. Remington and Sons (then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines) , to commercialize what was known as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. Remington started production of their first typewriter on March 1, 1873 in Ilion, New York. The Type-Writer introduced the QWERTY, designed by Sholes, and the success of the follow-up Remington No. 2 of 1878 the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters via a shift key led to the popularity of the QWERTY layout. " (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A42376

Bibliographic Details

Title: Touch Method Instruction Book For Remington ...

Publisher: Remington Rand, Inc., Buffalo, NY

Publication Date: 1935

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-