The Remington 2 Standard was the Model T of typewriters, simple, reliable, and practical. It was the first typewriter to be produced in great quantity, introducing the world to typewriting and paving the way for the explosion in typewriter design and manufacturing that soon followed.
Introduced in 1878, the Remington 2 was the first typewriter to feature a shift key, enabling both uppercase and lowercase characters. Each key typed two characters, much like a modern computer keyboard. The machine pictured here dates from 1893.
The Remington 2 like its predecessor the Sholes and Glidden, is an under-strike or blind typewriter. To see what has been typed, the user lifts the hinged carriage and looks at the underside of the platen.
The Remington typewriter, along with other under-strike machines such as the Densmore, Caligraph, and Smith Premier, were among the most successful typing machines of their time. It was only with the emergence of front-strike visible typewriters, beginning with the Daugherty in 1893 and most significantly the Underwood in 1896, that the under-strike machines began to lose their dominance and ceased to be manufactured shortly into the new century.
“To save time is to lengthen life.” (please enlarge the red logo below to see this wonderful motto in full)
“The latest and highest achievement of inventive and mechanical skill. We add to the Remington every improvement that study and capital can secure.”
