1886 The Beginning
Smith Premier Typewriter Company Builds the First Typewriter Capable of Upper and Lower Case Letters
1909-1914 Innovation
Standard Typewriter Company builds the first portable typewriter and soon after renames itself after its popular Corona model
1926 The Merger
L.C. Smith & Bros. and Corona Typewriter merge with Smith producing office typewriters and Corona manufacturing portables.
1942 Wartime Effort
At the U.S. Government´s request, Smith Corona suspends typewriter production to make rifles for the war effort
1955 A New Kind of Typewriter
Production of the first Smith Corona electric office typewriter begins
1989 New Products
Launched the world´s first Laptop Personal Word Processor
2010 Label and Ribbon Manufacturing
Smith Corona makes large capital expenditures to build a vertically integrated label manufacturing facility in Cleveland Ohio.
