History of the Typewriter
Forfatter: Geo. Carl Mares
År: 1909
Forlag: Guilbert Pitman
Sted: London
Sider: 318
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Fig. 158.
machines have worn out and gone beyond repair. It
could hardly be expected that the older operators who
have grown to like—and in many cases almost to love—
the instruments which have been their friends for so many
years, could suddenly turn round on them in favour of
the newer school of thought. But the ever increasing
demand for visibility had, in due course, its effect, and
the No. 10 Remington was the result.
It is claimed that the new machine is, before every-
thing else, a Remington, and retains all the features which
have given that name its prominent position. But the
changes are so great as to justify us in regarding it as
a new instrument, and upon this basis we proceed to
describe it.
The keyboard is, of course, the universal one, and calls
for no special remark. The typebars are strong, and
strike upward to the front of the platen, and retain their
old power of stencil cutting and manifolding. The machine
is fitted with a tabulator, or rather a column selector.
This is an improvement on the jumper used in many
machines, and may well be regarded as an advance. Let
us explain. In other machines, where the tabulator or
jumper enables the operator to pass from fixed point to
fixed point, there were no means of passing over inter-
mediate points. Thus, if our tabulator stops were fixed