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American 2
American Visible 1
Automatic
Bar-Lock 4
Bennett
Blickensderfer 5
Blickensderfer 6
Caligraph 2
Chicago - decorated
Columbia 1
Columbia 2
Commercial Visible 6
Crandall, New Model
Daugherty
Edelmann
Edland
Empire 1
Ford
Franklin
Granville Automatic
Hall 1
Hall Braille-Writer
Hammond 1 - Mahogany
Hammond 1 - Oak
Hammond 1b
Hammonia
Hartford 2
Ideal
Jewett 1
Jewett 4
Keystone 1
Kleidograph - for the blind
Lambert 1
McLoughlin Brothers
Merritt
Mignon 2
Morris
Munson 1
National - 1889
New American 5
Norths
Odell 1
Odell 2
Oliver 2
Peoples
Postal 3
Remington 2
Rem-Sho no. 4
Shimer
Simplex 1
Smith Premier 1
Standard Folding 1
Stenograph 1 - first form
Stenograph 1 - third form
Sun index
Sun Standard 2
Underwood 1
Victor index
Williams 1 - curved keyboard
World 1
Yost 1

Norths

Norths


North's Typewriter Manufacturing Co. Ltd., London
1892 - serial no.1592

The North’s typewriter has the rare design feature of having its type-bars stand up vertically behind the carriage. This gives visible typing, with the type bars swinging down to the top of the platen. However this configuration creates a complicated paper-handling situation that requires two ‘holding baskets’ in the carriage, one for the paper to be rolled into before typing and the other for the paper to roll up into as one typed. So visible typing was achieved but only to the extent that a few lines could be seen before the paper advanced into the lower holding basket.

The typewriter got its name from Lord North, who bought the factory where the English typewriter had been made in 1890 and financed the development of the North's typewriter which appeared in 1892 .

Only four typewriters were ever made with this, behind the carriage, configuration of type-bars and those were, in addition to the North's, the Waverly (also british), Brooks, and Fitch.

The delightful illustration shown below, from the Illustrated London News of 1994, shows 'performers on the North type-writer' at an exposition.

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