The Ford typewriter is a most impressive machine with its ornate grille and gracefully integrated keyboard. The Ford typewriter broke new ground in being the first typewriter to use the new metal ‘aluminum’ in its construction. The Ford typewriter was invented by Eugene A Ford (1866 - 1948), a man with a very distinguished career. Ford worked with Herman Hollerith, director of the United States Census, and founder of the Tabulating Machine Company. Hollerith created the first mechanical, punched card data processing equipment that would revolutionize the collecting and disseminating of information for the US Census. The Martin Howard Collection