Fabricante: HAMMOND
Modelo: MULTIPLEX
Condición: Bueno
Fecha de Fabricación: 1910

The hammond typewriter was one of the most successful writing machines produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Production of these machines by the Hammond Typewriter Co. Of New York began in 1881 and lasted until 1931 when the company changed its name to VariTyper Inc. (and later to Coxhead Corp of New York). The story behind this excellent little machine began with Civil war correspondent james bartlett hammond. During the war he became extremely frustrated and embarrassed when his handwritten reports and dispatches were misinterpreted by telegraphers and typesetters. In between battles he dreamed of '' 'miracle machines' that would write mechanically with printer's type''and began to draw sketches of such machines (beeching, wilfred A. Century of the Typewriter . 1990, 110). Fifteen years later this dream came true when his first typewriter was patented in 1880. This particular Hammond model, the ''Multiplex'', looks particularly unusual -even for 1910-1915. Loading paper into the machine was difficult, but this disadvantage was overlooked by buyers due to the superior and diverse typing that could be done with it. Many different types of shuttles could be acquired and fitted onto the circular rotating type sector in order to type different alphabets, languages, abd symbols.