Remington Standard No. 7 (1901)

The Remington Standard No. 7
 
Year of production:  1901
 
Company:  Remington Typewriter Company , Ilion, New York , USA
 
Serial No. 78380
 
The Model 7 and its predecessors are known as 'blind writers' or 'up-stroke' because you cannot see what you are writing as you are typing. The carriage must be tilted upwards to read your recent work- but the idea is you just keep typing your document largely in the blind until it is complete. You can probably understand why this type of mechanism didn't last much beyond the turn of the century.
 
The Remington Factory

Although the name Remington played a leading role in typewriter production for many decades, the original Remington Arms factory was involved with typewriters for a very short time only. Briefly, this is what happened:
 
When the first 1000 Sholes & Glidden typewriters were produced at the Remington factory, Densmore and Sholes were the primary owners of the machine. Remington and sons had only a minority interest. For a brief period between 1877 and 1882 Remington had a majority share, but both engineers (Yost) and marketeers (Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict) who became involved obtained shares.
 
Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict in New York obtained sole distribution rights for the Remington typewriter in 1883 and three years later also obtained sole manufacturing rights, which included the right to use the Remington name on the machine that now had nothing to do with the original Remington factory and family. In fact, they built their own factory for the production of Remington typewriters.