The Ford typewriter was introduced in 1895 by Eugene A. Ford, who later became chief development engineer at IBM (no relation to

Henry Ford Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that ...

who founded the

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobi ...

). Unlike many competing typewriters of this time, it was a forward-striking machine, meaning the type-bars moved forward against the paper which was held against the platen. This allowed the typist to see the text as it was typed, which was not possible in most other typewriters of the time. It was the first typewriter to use

aluminum Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It ha ...

in its construction. Ford typewriters were made in limited numbers and today are sought after by collectors.

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