Underwood 5 typewriter

The Underwood 5 is a manual, type-bar typewriter with a Central European QWERTZ standard keyboard. It was manufactured between 1900 and the early 1930s by the Underwood Typewriter Company. The Underwood 5 model is considered to be one of the first fully modern typewriters. The Underwood 5 model is considered to be one of the first fully modern typewriters. Underwood 5 used a four-row, stepped layout of keys to which a separate modifier key was added for typing capital letters (shift). The most important innovation, however, proved to be the horizontal placement of the type bars, which allowed the platen and the sheet of paper on it to be uncovered, thereby providing the typist with control over the text being typed. In earlier models of typewriters, the typed text could only be checked after the sheet of paper had been taken out of the machine. Manufacturer: Underwood Typewriter Co. Inc. USA, 1915-1920 Inv. No.: MIM246/VII-44 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA