Typewriter Museum Beck

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The Beck Typewriter Museum is a Zurich memory institution that shows around 300 exhibits from the early days of typing and office automation. The museum is located in the industrial area of Pfäffikon , Canton Zurich , at Speckstrasse 3.

The exhibits are restored typewriters and calculating machines . These include the Swiss-made Saturn typewriters from 1898, made in Meilen , as well as the Hermes , made by Paillard in Yverdon-les-Bains and the Darling by Gertsch in Fleurie. The calculating machine demos by Theo Muggli Zurich, Loga by Daemon Schmid, Uster and Zurich, and the billeters were also made in Switzerland. You can see the smallest mechanical calculating machine in the world, the Curta , made in Liechtenstein .

The archive contains part of the correspondence from Ferdinand M. Kleefeld, special repair workshop for typewriters and calculating machines in Bern from the 1910s, as well as a large part of the estate of Curt Herzstark, the inventor of the Curta calculating machine. The Typewriter Museum Beck is a member of the Association of Museums in Switzerland.

  • Crandall typewriter, born in 1886, made in the USA and kept in the Beck Typewriter Museum

  • Calculating machine Curta type 1a, approx. 1968, made in Liechtenstein

  • Typewriter Darling, born in 1911, made in Switzerland

  • Typewriter Mignon Mod. 2 red, year 1902, made in Germany

literature

  • Werner Frei: Curta - calculating machine from the concentration camp. In: The Zurich Oberland. June 3, 2015, p. 3.
  • Herbert Bruderer: Surprising finds on the Curta, the smallest mechanical calculating machine in the world: drawings from the Buchenwald concentration camp, documents from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ETH, Zurich 2014. online (pdf)
  • Leonhard Dingwerth: Historical typewriters: history, technology and fascination. Battenberg, Regenstauf 2008, ISBN 978-3-86646-041-6 .
  • Philosophers and Tips. Typewriter Museum in Pfäffikon. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 9, 2008, p. 55. ( online )
  • Curt Herzstark, Christine Holub (Ed.): No present for the Führer. Fate of a gifted inventor. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-1136-8 .
  • Christina Neuhaus: The calculating machine from Buchenwald. Office machine collector Curt Herzstark is honoring in Pfäffikon. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 17, 2005, p. 39. ( online )

Web links

Commons : Typewriter  Museum Beck - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '14.59 "  N , 8 ° 46' 14.78"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred thousand six hundred fourteen  /  247507