Typewriter of the XIX

This splendid typewriter of the 1850s comes Japy family origin of Beaucourt of French industrial dynasty in the territory of Belfort. It had the second largest French company during the Second Empire. Its influential members have marked the french industrial landscape by providing many innovations in the technical area but also in the Organization of work and the social life of workers in the 19th century. It all started with a small workshop founded in 1777 by Frédéric Japy, where he renews and mechanized the traditional process of the établissage practiced in Jura watchmaking profession. The movement of watches, Japy happened to clocks and has diversified into machinery, motors, bicycle parts, fixtures, furniture of garden, pumps, coffee Mills, typewriter, etc. The 1880s marked the golden age of Japy. Near 5 000 workers working in factories Japy in the region.

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