The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . struments and the by the company, remaining in its employ untilthe autumn of 1873, when he exhibited the type-writer—one of the Milwaukee machines, now knownas the
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . struments and the by the company, remaining in its employ untilthe autumn of 1873, when he exhibited the type-writer—one of the Milwaukee machines, now knownas the Remington typewriter—at the AmericanInstitute Pair in New York city, where it wasawarded the silver medal. He has made manyinventions and improvements for the Remingtontypewriter, among the most important of which arethe reversible scales or indexes for the paper car-riage, the loops which encircle the key-levers, theadjustable universal bar for letter-spacing, and therelease-key for the paper carriage. In October,1875, he introduced the typewriter into the officesof the New York Associated Press. He improvedthe system of manifolding, taking from twenty-sixto thirty-two impressions at one operation by the useof carbon and tissue papers. Mr. Barron inventedthe letter-spacing mechanism, carriage guide, rods,universal bar, index scales, ribbon movement, andminor devices used in the Caligraph typewriter. The. letter-spacing device is composed, in part, of tworacks attached to the rear of the carriage, one ofwhich has a lateral movement of the distance of atype and its necessary space. The racks are con-nected by a spiral spring. When the machineis at rest a pawl, operated by the key-levers, is en-gaged with the loose rack. When a key is de-pressed the pawl is disengaged from the loose rackand engages the other rack, thus pei-mitting thespiral spring to draw the loose rack endwise a letter-space. When the finger is taken from the key thepawl returns to the loose rack and the po
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