The Remington

The Remington is a portable noiseless typewriter made by Remington in approximately 1930.  While it was marketed as “noiseless” it wasn’t.  Instead, it contained a collar used to dampen the noise and lower its frequency.  Noiseless typewriters were developed by the Noiseless Typewriter Company, which was acquired by Remington in 1925.  Remington continued to market noiseless machines in the 1940s.  The production of noiseless typewriters ceased in 1952.  E. Remington & Sons was founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in 1816 in Ilion, New York, with the production of the first commercial typewriter occurring in 1873. Before producing typewriters, this Company produced Remington Firearms.     In 1714 Henry Miller obtained a patent in Britain for a machine that, from the patent, appears to have been similar to the typewriter.  In 1829, American William Austin Burt patented a machine called the “Typographer” which, in common with other early machines, is listed as the “first typewriter.”  By the mid-19^th century, the increasing pace of business communication had created a need for mechanization of the writing process.  Apparently, all of this seems to foreshadow email.  Stenographers and telegraphers could take down information at rates up to 130 words per minute, whereas a writer with a pen was limited to a maximum of 30 words per minute (1853 world speed record).  The Remington is a wonderfully unique iHorn, which calls back an era of productivity which demonstrated that machines were tolls that could speed progress and that well made products can not only carry their weight but stand the test of time.  A little less noise there please, a little less noise.