The Golden Age of Typewriter Evolution: 1870 to 1970

1904 Williams #4

Type bars come from both the front and back of the machine to impact the paper. The front and back action looks something like grasshoppers jumping.

Paper must be rolled up into a tube and inserted into a cage before rolling paper into the machine.

Note that platen is missing on this machine.

The cage to hold the rolled up paper is shown here.

Serial number 19251

This machine has no ribbon. Instead type bars rest on an inked felt pad.

Platen is missing from this machine.

Obviously one typist primarily used this machine and wore a hole in the spacebar paint.