The Collection
Hi, I’m Joel — I collect and restore antique typewriters, mechanical calculators, and the occasional mechanical curiosity, and I document the work on my YouTube channel, Dynamically Typed. This site is the companion catalogue for the collection.
It currently holds 87 typewriters, 3 mechanical calculators, and 4 other marvels — 23 with a companion video, plus 5 events & channel extras.
There are also 5 parts machines kept as donors — not part of the collection, but available if you’re hunting for a part.
Typewriters87
Adler Klein Adler No. 1
Thrust action
Adler Klein Adler No. 2
Thrust
Adler Mod. 7
Thrust
Adler Mod. 7
Thrust
Adler Tippa 1
Alpina SK24
Removable carriage
American No. 2
Index
Bar-Let No. 1
Blue
Bar-Lock Portable
Combined escapment and mainspring
Bennett
Smallest typewriter with a full keyboard
Bing No. 2
Blickensderfer Home
Blickensderfer No. 5
Blickensderfer No. 7
Calanda Luxe
Self-contained direct-drive, reverse tilt carriage shift
Caligraph No. 2
upstrike, wood key levers
Chicago No. 1
typesleeve w/ keyboard
Cole Steel Portable
Green
Colombia Bar-Lock No. 8
bar lock
Continental Klein
Corona No. 3
Folding
Emerson No. 3
Side-facing typebars
Erika 1
Fox No. 23
Multiple rows of typebars
Fox Portable No. 2
Folding
Gritzner
Flat printing
Groma Kolibri
Iconic Ultraportable
Gundka MW
typesleeve index
Hall (Braille) Braille Writer
Original Brailler
Hall (Index) Salem
First commercially successful index
Hammond Multiplex Portable
Mathematical
Hammond No. 12
Heady
Mignon clone
Helios
triple shift
Hermes Rocket (HD-2)
Hispano-Olivetti Studio 46
IBM Selectric 723
11in platen, fabric, 12cpi
Ideal (S&N) A3
Carriage and basket shift, unique carriage return
Imperial B
curved keyboard, replaceable action
Imperial Good Companion
cork platen
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Junior (Spain) 58
Junior (Spain) 58
white
Kanzler 3
swing/thrust action, multi-key slugs
L.C. Smith No. 3
Long Carriage (14")
LaSalle Master Model 4
Stenotype
Merritt
Linear index, steel type
Mignon Modell 2
2D Index
Molle No. 3
Easy to service, rare MT logo
New American No. 5
Index (basically an Odell)
Nippo P-200
Japanese made
Noiseless Portable
Steel Platen, noiseless mechanism
Odell No. 4
Index
Oliver No. 9
Long Carriage
Oliver Portable
Swiss-made (Patria) for British Oliver
Olympia SF De Luxe
Script typeface #69
Olympia SM4
"Professional Elite" typeface, 11 cpi, #41
People's
Perkeo No. 2?
Folding
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Princess Scheidegger Princess-matic
Remington Junior
first segment double shift, ribbon spools hidden
Remington Portable 2
Remington Rand KMC
Keyboard Margin Control, Elite
Rheinmetall Portable
QWERTY with Yen, Dollar, and Pound
Rico A1
Rare 2D index toy
Royal No. 5 "Flatbed"
Royal Quiet De Luxe
Two-tone Dreyfuss
Silver-Reed 8700
Electric
Silver-Reed Color PenGraph EB50
Electronic, plotter-like pens
Smith Corona "Flattop"
Smith Corona Sears Constellation
Elite Double Gothic typeface
Smith Corona Secretarial 250 Office Electric
Cubic typeface, power return and backspace
Smith Corona Skyriter
classic ultraportable
Smith Corona Super G
Karmann Ghia styling
Smith Premier No. 10 (10-A)
Only front-strike with full keyboard
Standard Folding No. 2
Stoewer Elite
tipped spools
Tip Tip
small 2D index
Toshiba 1400FL
Japanese Index
Underwood Champion
Tripod case
Underwood No. 5
First commercially successful visible typewriter
Underwood Quiet Tab De Luxe
50s Southwest styling, elite
Underwood Standard Portable "3 Bank"
Very small, early portable
VariTyper Model 610
Proportional spacing
Virotyp
Hand-held index
Western Stamping Co. Tom Thumb
Toy
Western Stamping Co. Tom Thumb Junior
Toy Index
Williams Academy
Grasshopper action
