Remington 10 (1913)

This is an old typewriter, the Remington 10 from 1913. Remington was also a rifle builder, but it’s not strange that they started to build typewriters, because both rifles and typewriters require skills in precision mechanics. There are other examples of this, Seidel & Naumann, before starting to build typewriters, was a sewing machines builder. So James Desmore, George Wangston Yost and H. H. Benedict, in 1873 convinced Philo Remington to build typewriters.

In 1886 Remington quit from the typewriter building, but the name remained the same. And in 1908, Remington started the production of the model 10, the first Remington typewriter with visible writing.

In the previous models, this Remington 7 for example, you could not see what you wrote because the typing bars were below the carriage. The Remington models after the 10, the model 11 and the model 12 are quite similar to this model 10.

Here you can see a video with all the particularities of this typewriter, and how to use it.

And a comparation between the Remington 10, 11 and 12

Here a gallery with some nice pictures, from the photographer Milena. I'm not so good in doing pictures.