History of the Typewriter

—217— 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