Financed by the European Regional Development Fund and Interreg Italy-Austria V-A 2014-2020
List of Typewriter museum's info points
Here you will find a list of the museum's various info points.
Ground floor
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1. Cube
Welcome to the Typewriter Museum. Travel with us back in time and discover the world of the typewriter.
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2. The origin of writing
Signs and symbols, notches carved in sticks, counting tablets and clay markings which were used for accounting purposes were precursors for the new written form of communication.
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3. Peter Mitterhofer
The revolutionary change which Gutenberg made to writing with the invention of printing was taken further in the mid 19th Century.
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4. America, Sholes & Glidden
We will now embark upon the next diorama, where we will meet the American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes, together with his daughter Lili.
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5. Frister & Rossmann
As soon as the American typewriter manufacturers ventured across the ocean, it became clear that the battle to survive on the market would be extremely difficult.
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6. Edison
Even the greatest inventors such as Thomas Alva Edison could not withstand the competition.
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7. Crandall
Visible script was thought to be the solution for commercial success. On the first typewriters – down-stroke machines – the written text could not be seen until the rollers were lifted.
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8. Ford
The Ford, a typewriter made from aluminium which was designed specifically for use on ships, was also very short-lived.
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First floor
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9. Military cabinet
Now let’s move on to the first floor to the military cabinet on the left-hand side. Here you can see the various army typewriters, field telephones and coding devices from the Second World War.
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10. Germany
Now turn towards the 3 separate cabinets by the stairs where the history of German typewriters has been detailed.
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11. Foreign languages
Opposite you will see the foreign languages cabinet with various typewriters in Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Korean, Sinhala, Thai and Chinese characters.
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13. Index Typewriters
In the small hanging cabinet you can see some very rare typewriters. The boom in typewriter manufacturing in the 1890s resulted in a wide variety of models.
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14. Music Typewriters
Music typewriters are a further milestone in the production of typewriters. The idea of developing music typewriters is as old as writing music itself.
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15. Noiseless Typewriters
A range of noiseless typewriters which were developed from the 20s onwards is displayed here.
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16. Advertising posters MAP
Numerous historical posters enrich the display of typewriters on a socio-cultural note.
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17. Lower case machines
The competition became stronger, mainly due to the many index typewriters which flooded the market as consumer goods.
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18. Mignon
In Germany, a number of companies were involved in the manufacture of typewriters at the same time.
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19. Adler
The Frankfurt-based Adler bicycle factory began around 1898 by manufacturing a typewriter which was a copy of the “Empire” produced in Canada.
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20. Blickensderfer
The American Blickensderfer, manufactured from 1893 onwards, was also sold in Europe with success.
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21. Hammond
The American inventor James Barlett Hammond also had a lot of luck with his typewriter which he built in 1880 in New York.
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22. Oliver
The American Methodist preacher Thomas Oliver also wanted to produce a typewriter with visible script.
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23. Malling Hansen
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, on the other hand, used the Malling Hansen, the Danish “Scrivekugel” or writing ball, which in 1867 was the first typewriter to be mass produced and sold.
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Second floor
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24. Portable Typewriters
The final floor starts with an exhibition of various portable typewriters.
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25. Standart Typewriters
In the next large cabinet you can see an assortment of standard typewriters, the classical office typewriters.
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26. Glashütte
Although produced according to the same principles as the Underwood, the “Glashütte”, from the place of the same name in Germany, was not so successful.
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27. Accounting machines
Various calculating machines appeared on the market parallel to the development of the typewriter.
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28. Electric Typewriters
Electric typewriters also pushed their way into offices very early on. In 1871, Thomas Alva Edison had already invented an electrically driven typewriter, although this was never used./p>
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29. Olivetti P203
Just 50 years later, the first PCs started to appear on the market and gradually began to replace the typewriter.
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31. Archive
If you wish to tap away at one of the typewriters yourself, or dream of seeing more typewriters than you can possibly imagine, we invite you to visit our archives on the lower ground floor, which can be accessed on foot or using the lift.
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