E.

Remington and Sons

E. Remington and Sons (1816–1896) was a manufacturer of
firearms and typewriters. Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington E. Remington and Sons
in Ilion, New York, on March 1, 1873 it became known for
manufacturing the first commercial typewriter.

Contents
History
The rifle barrel Remington factory circa 1840
Becoming "E. Remington & Sons" Type Private
Remington's typewriter then Partnership.
Corporation
Successor companies
Remington Arms Industry Firearms,
Remington Typewriter Company mechanical
consumer products
Bibliography (typewriters)
References Fate Purchased
External links Successor Remington Arms
Co.
Standard
History Typewriter
Manufacturing
Company
The rifle barrel later Remington
Typewriter
There are two versions of the origin Company and
story of the first Remington rifle Remington Rand
barrel. One holds that the younger Founded Ilion, NY, United
Remington wanted to purchase a States (1816)
rifle and lacked the money to buy Founder Eliphalet
one so he made his own. The other Remington
states that he forged a barrel from
wrought iron to see if he could build Headquarters United States of
America , United
a better rifle than he could buy.[1]
States of America
Both versions have him taking the
barrel to a gunsmith to have it Area served Worldwide
Eliphalet Remington
rifled.[2] Products Firearms-pistols,
rifles, shotguns
Eliphalet II forged his first rifle barrel as a young blacksmith in 1816 typewriters
and finished second place in a local shooting match with it. Despite
Website www.remington
not winning the match, he proceeded to make barrels to meet the
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growing demand for flintlock rifles in the Mohawk Valley. With the
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completion of the Erie Canal, connecting Buffalo with Albany,
commerce in the Mohawk Valley expanded remarkably as did the
demand for rifle barrels.[3]

To meet the increased demand for rifle barrels, in 1828 the

Remingtons moved their forge and foundry from its rural setting to
100 acres (0.4 km²) of land they had purchased astride the canal and
abutting the Mohawk River near a town then called Morgan's
Landing (later Ilion), New York.[4] The move coincided with the
elder Eliphalet's death, and Eliphalet II assumed control of the Remington .46 Conversion display
business.[5]

Becoming "E. Remington & Sons"

In 1839 Eliphalet was joined by his oldest son, Philo Remington (to make the business "E. Remington &
Son"), and in 1845 his second son, Samuel, also joined the company, afterwards called "E. Remington &
Sons".[4] Remington's third son, Eliphalet III, would later join the company as well. During this period, the
Remingtons specialized almost exclusively in the manufacture of rifle barrels. These barrels, marked with
the distinctive "REMINGTON" stamp near their breeches, were recognized for their quality and reasonable
price. Many, if not most, of the independent gunsmiths in the Mohawk Valley purchased completed (but not
rifled) barrels from Remington and assembled them into firearms custom ordered by their customers. As
demand increased, the Remingtons added other parts to their inventory, first percussion locks made in
Birmingham, England but marked with their stamp "REMINGTON", and later sets of brass gun furniture,
including trigger guards, butt plates, and patch boxes. After 1846, first martial longarm and then revolver
production dominated the company's workforce.[5][6]

In 1848, the company purchased gun making machinery from the Ames Manufacturing Company of
Chicopee, Massachusetts, and took over a contract for Jenks breechloading percussion carbines for the U.S.
Navy. Remington supplied the U.S. Navy with its first breech-loading rifle. Remington supplied the U.S.
Army with rifles in the Mexican–American War (1846 to 1848). Shortly after, Remington took over a
defaulted contract (by John Griffith of Cincinnati) for 5,000 U.S. Model 1841 Percussion Mississippi rifles.
Based on the success of filling these orders, subsequent contracts followed in the 1850s.[4][5]

In 1856 the business was expanded to include the manufacture of agricultural implements. Upon Eliphalet's
death in 1861, his son, Philo, took over the firm during the Civil War, and diversified the product line to
include sewing machines (manufactured from 1870 to 1894) and typewriters (1873), both of which were
exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.

Remington's typewriter

On June 23, 1868 a patent was granted to Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and
Samuel W. Soule for a "Type-Writer" which was eventually developed into the
Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first device that allowed an operator to type
substantially faster than a person could write by hand. The patent (U.S. 79,265) was
sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E. Remington
and Sons (then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines), to commercialize
what was known as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. Remington started
Sholes & Glidden production of their first typewriter on March 1, 1873 in Ilion, New York. The Type-
Typewriter, 1876 Writer introduced the QWERTY, designed by Sholes, and the success of the follow-
up Remington No. 2 of 1878 – the first typewriter to include both upper and lower
case letters via a shift key – led to the popularity of the QWERTY layout.[7]
Successor companies

Remington Arms

E. Remington & Sons supplied a large proportion of the small arms

used by the United States government in the Civil War (1861 to
1865). On March 7, 1888, ownership of E. Remington & Sons left
possession of the Remington family and was sold to new owners,
Hartley and Graham of New York, New York and the Winchester
Repeating Arms Company of New Haven, Connecticut. At which
time the name was formally changed to the Remington Arms
Company.[8]

Remington in addition was one of the most successful gun

manufacturers in the world arms trade between 1867 and 1900,
specifically through the export of the Remington Rolling Block
action rifle. This single-shot, large-caliber black-powder cartridge
Remington-Rider
rifle was exported in the millions all over the world, including
shipments to France, Egypt, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium,
Argentina, Mexico and the Papal States. It was an important gun
supplier of small arms used by the United States government in World War I (U.S. involvement 1917 to
1918) and World War II (U.S. involvement 1941 to 1945)

Remington Typewriter Company

In 1886, E. Remington and Sons sold its typewriter business to the

Standard Typewriter Manufacturing Company, Inc. Included were the
rights to use the Remington name. The buyers were William O.
Wyckoff, Harry H. Benedict and Clarence Seamans, all of whom
worked for Remington.

Standard Typewriter changed its name in 1902 to Remington

Typewriter Company.[9] This company merged in 1927 with Rand
Kardex Bureau to form Remington Rand,[10] which continued to
manufacture office equipment and later became a major computer
company, as well as manufacturing electric razors.

Bibliography
Beeching, Wilfred A. (1974). Century of the Typewriter. New
York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-434-90120-2 Advertisement for the Remington
Model 1892

References
1. Society, Herkimer County Historical; Smith, Arthur T. (1899). Papers Read Before the Herkimer
County Historical Society During the Years 1896- (https://books.google.com/books?id=Xp54AA
AAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA77). Citizen Publishing Company. pp. 78–82.
 2. Shideler, Dan (2008). Standard Catalog Of Remington
Firearms (https://books.google.com/books?id=eW6K-z8d2IM
C&pg=PA11) (Iola, Wisconsin ed.). Krause Publications.
p. 11. ISBN 1-4402-2699-7.
3. Newman, Stephen Morrell (1881). America: an encyclopaedia
of its history and biography. Horace King. p. 411.
4. Flayderman, Norm (2001). Flayderman's guide to antique
American firearms ... and their values (8th ed.). Iola, WI:
Krause Publications. pp. 134–136. ISBN 0-87349-313-3.
5. Marcot, Roy M. (2005). The History of Remington Firearms (h
ttps://books.google.com/books?id=jAmkAvoUKIEC&pg=PA8).
Lyons Press. pp. 8–10. ISBN 978-1-59228-690-4.
6. Marcot, Roy M. (2005). The History of Remington Firearms (h
ttps://books.google.com/books?id=jAmkAvoUKIEC&pg=PA8).
Lyons Press. pp. 8–10, 43. ISBN 978-1-59228-690-4.
7. Liebowitz, S. J.; Margolis, Stephen (2002). The Economics of
QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy (https://books.google.c 1909 advertisement for the
om/books?id=EtnyT44_c1EC&pg=PA44). New York: New Remington No. 10 and 11
York University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8147-5178-7.
8. Henning, Robert A.; Terrence H. Witkowski (November 2013).
"The Advertising of E. Remington & Sons: The Creation of a National Brand, 1854-1888".
Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 5: 418–438.
9. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_850053
10. Saunders, Cece; Schneiderman-Fox, Faline (March 2010). Documentation – Remington Rand
Facility, 180 Johnson Street, Middletown, Connecticut (https://web.archive.org/web/201603040
91922/http://www.middletownplanning.com/documents/RemingtonRand_Middletown.pdf)
(PDF). Historical Perspectives, Inc. p. 6. Archived from the original (http://www.middletownplan
ning.com/documents/RemingtonRand_Middletown.pdf) (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved
September 11, 2014.

External links
"Remington 2 typewriter - 1895, The Martin Howard Collection" (https://www.antiquetypewriter
s.com/typewriter/remington-2-typewriter/).
"Remington 4 Perfected typewriter - 1878, The Martin Howard Collection" (https://www.antiquet
ypewriters.com/typewriter/remington-perfected-4-typewriter/).

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