History of the Typewriter

—286— Fig. 207. required. These orders involved much handling during the manufacture of the goods, and cardboard was found to be the only suitable material to write them on. As cardboard, however, would not permit of manifolding, a machine had to be devised which would get over the difficulty. The cards are printed in sections of three, and are started through the back carriage, then through the second to the first. I hey are so printed that the writing comes into proper register on each card. Notwithstanding the strain which it may be thought the fingers would have to bear in typing three pieces of matter at once, it is nevertheless stated that the machine works quite easily, the tension hardly varying from that of a single machine. The peculiar form of shaft on the Smith-Premier renders this feat of mechanism not only possible, but easy, although it is hard to see how the same ends could be effected on any other make of the typewriter at present on the English market. Travis. A machine of this name was placed upon the American market some years since, but very careful inquiry on our part has failed to elicit any details beyond the facts that it was a ribbon machine, and that it was run by a corporation calling itself the Travis Typewriter Co. Typewriter Trust, The. The typewriter trust, about which so much has been said and so little known, was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., March 30th, 1893, under the name of the Union Typewriter Company. The