1936 Underwood Universal

Underwood didn’t start as a typewriter company. John T. Underwood built the business supplying ribbons and carbon paper to other manufacturers, chiefly Remington, until Remington started making its own. Underwood answered by buying into a machine, Franz Xaver Wagner’s design, acquired in 1895. Five years later, that design became the Underwood No. 5. It’s usually […]