History of the Typewriter

— 138 — North’s Typewriter. When the company manufacturing the English type- writer closed down, the works, plant and tools were taken over by the late Colonel North, whose interest in mechanics had long been known, and arrangements made to place upon the market an entirely new machine of which the two Fig. hi principal features were to be absolutely visible writing and everything in front of the type-bars, so that the operator could do anything required to manipulate the machine, whether to set his margins, reverse his ribbon, and so on. without rising from his seat or turning the machine round, Fig. iiz