The four row keyboard has a QWERTY layout. The floating shift moved the typebars up and down instead, allowing for a smoother typing action. When the shift key was invented, it originally shifted the cylinder, or platen, to be struck in a new position by the capital letters on a typebar. The model was made to be portable, and operate quietly thanks to the Smith Floating Shift used in the machine (note the cursive word “Floating” above the shift key). This is a Smith & Corona Silent typewriter manufactured by around 1934.
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