Flutterby™! : Blickensderfer Typewriter

Back from a Thanksgiving break road trip. One of the stops was the Bolt Tool Museum in Oroville California. A fascinating place that could use a little curating, after the umpteenth wall of all slightly different curved crescent wrenches a little more context would be cool, but still a fascinating visit.

One of the devices on display was a Blickensderfer typewriter. It was first made in 1892, and used a three row type wheel rather than the individual arms that we've come to see in old typewriters. In 1900, George Blickensderfer introduced an electric version. More at the Wikipedia entry for the Blickensderfer typewriter.

But what caught my eye about this device was that it also wasn't a QWERTY layout keyboard.