Bambino children's typewriter
| Design | In-house design |
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| Year of Draft | 1958 |
| Production | VEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND |
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo)
| Design | In-house design |
|---|---|
| Year of Draft | 1958 |
| Production | VEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND |
The Bambino was a children's single-lever typewriter. Bambino is Italian and means: child. The Bambino was for children aged 4 and over. The Bambino was available from 1958.
Children could use the typewriter easily. The typewriter only had a few keys. The keys were • a large lever for writing • a green key for capital letters • a black key for lower-case letters • a red key for numbers and other characters
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Photo: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo)
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Photo: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo)
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Photo: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo)
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Photo: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo)
Details
| Design | In-house design |
|---|---|
| Year of Draft | 1958 |
| Production | VEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND |
| Place of production | Erfurt, Germany (GDR), Europe |
| Size | Height: 10, width: 27, depth: 24.5 cm |
| Colour | Blue, light blue, green, red, brown |
| Genre | Office and information systems |
| Inventory no. | 12/2014-1-3 |