Photo via Wikimedia Commons (Hemingway's, on display)
One example. Colors, sub-models, and production years vary; the machine you find may differ.
Corona No. 3the folding portable
The carriage folds forward over the keyboard, the whole thing fits in a small case, and it weighs less than 4 kg. The first truly portable typewriter, used by war correspondents and Hemingway. Three-bank keyboard with double shift that is uncomfortable by modern standards, but historically the machine that made typewriting in the field a thing you could do.
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Specifications
- Manufacturer
- Corona Typewriter Company
- Origin
- USA (Groton, NY)
- Years
- 1912–1941
- Form
- Ultraportable
- Mass
- 3.6 kg
- Shift
- carriage-shift