Underwood Typewriter Company

Underwood Typewriter Company
Company typePrivate company
IndustryBusiness machines
Founded1895 (1895)
FounderJohn T. Underwood
Defunct1963 (1963)
FateAcquired by Olivetti (1959)[1]
Headquarters
Manhattan, New York
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U.S.
Key people
Franz X. Wagner (inventor)
ProductsTypewriters
ParentOlivetti

The Underwood Typewriter Company was an American manufacturer of typewriters headquartered in New York City, with manufacturing facilities in Hartford, Connecticut. Underwood produced what is considered the first widely successful, modern typewriter. By 1939, Underwood had produced five million machines.[2]

  1. ^ "John Wolff's Web Museum – Olivetti Mechanical Calculators".
  2. ^ Depauw, Karen (November 10, 2014). "Typing History". WNPR.

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