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- OBJECT TYPE
- TYPE-BAR/UP-STROKE
- DATE
- 1887–1895
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1987.1085.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Yost Typewriter Co.
- MODEL
- YOST
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL WITH SYNTHETIC KEY TOPS, RUBBER (?) ROLLER/ COVER IS SYNTHETIC
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 35.0 cm
- Width
- 23.5 cm
- Height
- 23.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Typesetting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Yost
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
EXAMPLE OF THE WIDE VARIETY OF MACHINES AVAILABLETO CANADIAN CONSUMERS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. - Function
-
TO PROVIDE LEGIBLE & QUICK MECHANICAL WRITING - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF UP-STROKE GRASSHOPPER ACTION/ CHARACTERS INKED BY INK PAD, NOT RIBBON, ALLOWING DIRECT CONTACT BETWEEN THE CHARACTER & PAPER, THIS RESULTED IN A SHARPER IMPRESSION. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- ABOVE KEYS MARKED 'YOST'/CALIBRATED SCALE BELOW ROLLER NUMBERED 0-70/ THERE IS A KEY FOR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET, CAPS & LOWER CASE SEPARATELY, ALSO NUMBERS 1-9/ ALSO BRACKETS, PERCENT SIGN, SLASH, LINE, NUMBER, EXCLAMATION MARK, QUOTES, DOLLAR SIGN, APOSTROPHE, DASH, COMMA, QUESTION MARK, COLON, AMPERSAND, POUND STERLING SIGN/ ON BACK MARKED 'PATENTED'& '16.708'/ ON RIM ABOVE TYPE MECHANISM '[?]ERFECT'/ COVER MARKED 'Barrie Business College'
- Missing
- 1 KEY INDICATOR MISSING, POSSIBLY PERIOD KEY From CA of 12/16/1994 by Tony Missio: Yes - Missing one key button, proper left end bottom row.
- Finish
- BLACK FRAME WITH SOME SILVER-COLOURED PARTS/ SOME KEYS BLACK & SOME BONE-COLOURED/ COVER GREY WITH WHITE PRINTING
- Decoration
- N/A
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Yost Typewriter Co., Typewriter, between 1887–1895, Artifact no. 1987.1085, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1987.1085.001/
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