Inventor Name
Smathers, James Fields
Repository
University of California, Berkeley
The Bancroft Library,
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
510-642-6481
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/access.html
Physical Description
1 portfolio.
Summary
Correspondence primarily concerned with his invention of the electrial typebar typewriter in 1913. Detailed letters to longtime friend, Mrs. Edgar Sherman, document his experiences with the realities of patent rights, royalities, production and marketing.