Typewriter, portable electric

Object/Artifact

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Museum Of American Heritage

Name/Title

Typewriter, portable electric

Entry/Object ID

1000.2171.12

Description

Typewriter, Electric, portable

Collection

Jim Adams

Made/Created

Manufacturer

Smith-Corona (SCM)

Date made

1968

Notes

where made: Singapore model name: Super Sterling model number: 3LRJ serial number: 3LRJ255818

Color

Blue Brown

General Notes

Note

In original plastic case. working. Artifact label reads: Electric Typewriter Smith-Corona, Singapore 1968 This electric version of the Smith-Corona Super Sterling model features a switch that changes the force with which the keys strike the paper resulting in deeper or shallower imprints in the page. A harder strike with the key, and therefore a deeper imprint, would be used if the typist was using carbon paper to generate copies of the material. More force was needed to get the type to show clearly through the carbon sheet between the two pages.