On June 23, 1923, the Illustrated London News ran a double-page picture spread to mark the 50th Jubilee of the typewriter. The photos were of machines in the Science Museum in London and the National Museum in Washington DC, and those borrowed from the English Typewriter Company and actor Sir Henry Irving (a Hammond). The spread included images of a few typewriters with which we aren't all that familiar, including the English, the Gardner, the Burt, a Pratt prototype which apparently preceded the Pterotype, and the Wheatstone, which gave the Sholes & Glidden its carriage arrangement.
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