Ford Typewriter Ford Typewriter The Ford typewriter was an early prototype typewriter introduced in 1895 by Eugene A. Ford, who later became chief development engineer at IBM (no relation to Henry Ford who founded the Ford Motor Company). It was a commercial failure and only a few were manufactured. Unlike many competing typewriters of this time, it was a forward-striking machine, meaning the hammer struck forward against the paper which was held against the platen roller, instead of up from underneath. This allowed the typist to see the text as it was typed, which was not possible in most other typewriters of
The Typewriter Warner as being typed on a nonexistent typewriter. The piece also appears in the Amazon series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (season 1, episode 4). The variant of Russian name for composition "Соло на пишущей машинке" ("Solo na pishushchey mashinke", Solo on typewriter) is used for same-named self-help touch typewriting manual by Vladimir Shakhidzhanyan (1991) and later for his touch keyboarding computer trainer "Соло на клавиатуре" ("Solo na klaviature", Solo on keyboard) and for notebooks "Соло на ундервуде" ("Solo na undervude", Solo on underwood, 1980) and "Соло на IBM" ("Solo na IBM", Solo on IBM, 1990) by Sergei Dovlatov. The Typewriter