overall: 10 in x 13 in x 15 in; 25.4 cm x 33.02 cm x 38.1 cm
Object Name:
typewriter
Other Terms:
typewriter; Standard; Manual
Description:
Charles Spiro was the inventor of a variety of typewriters including the Columbia, the Bar-Lock, and this Visigraph. Spiro held a variety of patents relating to the Visigraph, and had begun production by 1910. This typewriter was manufactured by the Visigraph Typewriter Company sometime before 1919, when the Visigraph Typewriter Company reorganized as the C. Spiro Manufacturing Company. The Visigraph was a visible front-strike typewriter with a four-row QWERTY keyboard.
