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. He had the idea of creating a typewriter with even and visible script. He achieved this using the type vessel, a semicircular construction with 3 rows of types made from hard rubber. The impression was made by a hammer which struck the relevant type from behind. The system essentially resembled the typewriter already designed by John Pratt in the 60s. The Hammond was very popular because of the interchangeable type vessel. This enabled in particular typing to be carried out in other languages. However, it could not keep up with the other machines as far as speed was concerned.

You can see here the very rare green Hammond which was actually the military version of this typewriter. It was on this that the American President Wilson wrote the famous 14 Points of his 1918 Peace Plan.