Remington 10 (1908)

The Remington 10 
 
Year of production:  circa 1908
 
Company:  Remington Typewriter Company , Ilion, New York , USA
 
The most remarkable aspect of the Remington Standard 2 typewriter, the first typewriter to be produced and sold in considerable numbers, is the fact that it looks so familiar to modern eyes. This is the archetype of the typewriter.
 
Ask anyone to pick out the oldest machine in any typewriter collection that includes a model from 1878, and they'll more than likely pick out a machine that was built 20 years later.
 
The Remington 2 (the name Remington 1 was used for the latest Sholes & Glidden model) was fitted with a number of improvements to the original S&G design that would last a century.
 
The qwerty keyboard had been designed by Sholes himself, but new to the keyboard was the 'shift' key, that literally shifted the carriage to the front in order to type capitals. And a 'shift' key is what we still call it on our computer keyboards today.
 
The Remington 2 was an upstrike machine, with the type hanging down in a circle in the type basket. On hitting a key, the type would swing up against the platen and leave an impression of the letter on the paper. The typist would have to lift the carriage to see what was written.
 
Remington produced several other models that were closely related to the no. 2, until the Remington 6 (1894) became the most popular of all Remington models.
 
The Remington 2 was being offered for sale well into the 1890s. And it wasn't until 1908 that Remington yielded to market pressure to produce a frontstrike machine, the Remington 10.