Caligraph No. 2the double keyboard

George Washington Newton Yost had promoted the first Sholes & Glidden/Remington before he broke away in 1879 to form the American Writing Machine Company. His Caligraph, introduced in 1880, was the second commercially successful typewriter ever made. The No. 2 of 1882 brought the idea the machine is remembered for: a full double keyboard, with a separate key for every character in both cases, so a capital took one stroke rather than a shift. Black keys carried the capitals, white the lowercase. That launched the full-keyboard school that argued for decades against Remington's shift-key approach. Like other machines of its day it is an upstrike, printing on the underside of the platen, so you lift the carriage to read what you have written. A landmark to own and study.