Remington 7

Hello everybody.

This is a Remington Standard Number 7, from 1908.

It has many particularities that we will see in detail, upstroke typing bars, blind writing, a very large ribbon, etc. The No. 7 has been a successful model from Remington, 250000 having been sold.

It was produced starting from 1896 and like the previous models it was blind writing. It means you could not see what you wrote. But it was one of the last models with blind writing, the subsequent Remington N.10 started to have visible writing with normal front striking typing bars.

Here there is a typing test on how it feel like typing with these typewriters.

This model Number 7 was originally a variant of the No.6, intended for foreign languages. It differs from the previous model, the number 6, primarily in the number of buttons, having 42 buttons instead of 38. The additional buttons were necessary for the additional characters typical for foreign languages, for example the “à” and other accented letters for Italian, “ç” for French, “ö” for German, “ñ” for Spanish” etc. Of course, these additional buttons were found to be very useful also for English language, so the No. 7 soon became best sold than the No. 6 model, and substituted it.

In this typewriter, and in the majority of the typewriters at the beginning of last century you cannot see what you wrote. To view what you type, it is necessary to lift the carriage using the lever located on the left of the carriage.

Now it would seems bizarre, it’s similar if you used Windows Word with the video turned on the other side, and you had occasionally to turn the video to check what you wrote. This typewriter is different from the modern ones, it’s interesting to see how different were typewriters once a time, and how much engineers worked to make secretaries happy.

If you want to see more details, you can take a look at the video!

Bye.