Correcting Selectric II, model 895
Object Details
- Designer
- Eliot Noyes, American, 1910 - 1977
- Manufacturer
- International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Armonk, New York, USA
- Description
- Typewriter in bright blue housing with a boxy profile; black QWRTY keyboard and function keys; black plate IBM logo with "Correcting Selectric II" below in small silver square on top right ledge of body.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert M. Greenberg
- 1973
- Accession Number
- 2017-51-18-a/h
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Typewriter and Typing Elements
- Type
- Typewriter and Typing Elements
- Medium
- Aluminum, steel, molded plastic
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (typewriter): 18 × 51 × 38 cm (7 1/16 × 20 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
- H x diam. (typing ball: each): 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.)
- H x W x D (typing ball in box): 4 × 4 × 4 cm (1 9/16 × 1 9/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Armonk, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2017-51-18-a_h
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4531bcb71-4feb-4fa0-be83-6fdddde3cb71
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