The Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company was established in 1889 and quickly became famous for the Blick Model 5 typewriter – the “Five-Pound Secretary.” Introduced at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, the design eliminated individual type bars attached to each key and replaced them with a type wheel. The metal wheel rotated and struck the paper to create the typed letters, similar to the IBM Selectric type ball introduced in 1961. The type wheel allowed for...