The first commercial typewriters were produced in the USA in the 1870s and displayed a variety of keyboard layouts and systems of type bars. The Royal Bar-Lock 10 was an American typewriter ...

The Royal Typewriter Co. was founded in January of 1904, in a machine shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., by E.B. Hess and Lewis C. Myers, according to TypewriterMuseum.org. The initial Royal typewriter was ...