RARE "Sustained Typing Record" Albert Tangora Clipped Signature For Sale

Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Sustained Typing Record" Albert Tangora Clipped Signature

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Albert Tangora (July 2, 1903 – April

7, 1978) set the world speed record for sustained typing on a manual keyboard

for one hour, 147 words per minute, on

October 22, 1923. After a rest period, he typed 159 words in a one-minute

"sprint." The machine was an Underwood Standard, with a QWERTY keyboard. His record has never been surpassed on a

manual typewriter. Tangora's speeds in subsequent

typing competitions in New York sponsored by the International Commercial

Schools Association were slightly slower, due to different scoring rules, but

he held the record there as well of 141 words per minute, set in 1937 on a

Royal typewriter.[1] In all he won the competition seven times, finally

beaten by a typist using an electric machine. Tangora lived in Paterson, New Jersey at

the time of his 1923 record-setting performance, but he moved to Evanston, Illinois around

1937.