Exposition Invention/Design. Regards croisés.

Published on 02-05-2016 in [ keyboards, CNAM ]

Recently at the Musée des Arts et Métiers there was an exhibition called “Exposition Invention/Design. Regards croisés.”, set up with Sismo. Among several interesting design inventions (bicycles, heater, plane propellers, etc.), there were a handful of keyboards and typewriters. I took a few photographs (phone quality, sorry), here they are:

Smith Premier No 10, which features two keyboards, one for lower case, one for upper case.
Smith Premier
no10

Legend for Smith
Premier

the Underwood "Raphael" and the AEG Mignon no 4":

Underwood Raphael

AEG Mignon no 4

AEG Mignon no 4

Several mockups and first models of the IBM PC Convertible by Richard Sapper. Notice the difference between keyboards (blank keycaps, design of the Enter key, etc.):
IBM PC Convertible

IBM PC Convertible

IBM PC Convertible

IBM PC Convertible

Legend IBM PC Convertible