Underwood 5

From Typewriter Wiki
Revision as of 03:45, 18 October 2021 by Nekomata (talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

The Underwood 5 is one of the premier "old typewriters". With over 5 million units built, it is statistically the most common typewriter to ever be built.

___History and Design___

Invented in 1895 by Franz X. Wagner, the Underwood 5 was the first commercially-successful machine to offer true "visible writing" -- the ability to see what you typed. Prior to the Underwood design, most typewriters were of upstrike design, with a rounded basket that printed on the bottom of their platens-- rendering the typed page invisible to the user.