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Crackers Crandall: The Wayward Wizard of Typewriters
Looking at the lives of some of the more interesting people involved in the early development of the typewriter, few are as fascinating and as significant, yet as elusive, as that ofLUCIEN STEPHEN...
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Henry Harper Benedict's 1903 History of the Typewriter
This paper was delivered 110 years ago on Thursday of this week. 1903 marked the 30th anniversary of the deal signed by James Densmore and E.Remington & Sons to manufacture the Sholes & Glidden...
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Wyckoff, McKean Jones 1900 History of the Typewriter
As promised in yesterday's post about Henry Harper Benedict's history of the typewriter, here is the typewriter entry by William Ozmun Wyckoff and Robert McKean Jones from the 1900 edition of Johnson's...
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West Virginia, HERE I COME! Sixth Annual Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum...
Starting to think about packing the bags already - and trying to remember what I promised to take for Richard Polt.One month to go!Flights booked, hotels booked, itinerary confirmed - all is (just...
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Typewriter Mystery Men: The Barron Brothers, Brooks, Davidson, Hall and Spiro...
Toward the end of his otherwise marvellous 1954 book The Typewriter and The Men Who Made It, the late Richard Nelson Current annoyingly leaves, in the mind of the reader, a few more questions than he...
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Goodies and Such Good People: The Wonderful Wide World of Typewriters
My secretary, Phonetica Longley, seen here typing on my "go-to" Bijou, is getting sooooo utterly sick and tired of me not answering my correspondence, she's threatening to walk out (and take the Bijou...
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New Franklin Typewriter: Any Clean Up Advice?
The vice-president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Western Australia (FAWWA) is flying across the continent in a fortnight to bring me Joseph Furphy's New Franklin typewriter to have a look...
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Colourful Typewriter Life: 60 Years of Corona Portable Adverts - 80 Colour...
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Typewriter Truth in Black and White: 30 Years of Corona Mono Adverts - 112...
19121913191419151916191719181919This is the first Corona advert to appear in Australia, in Tasmania.1920First Australian advert with...
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Into the Typewriter Darkness: 45 Years of Corona Mono Adverts - 85 Ads,...
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Yikes! It's Back! The Clark Nova Typewriter Returns from its Long, Naked Lunch
The Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month launched its upcoming Cronenberg Project - and there at the press conference announcing the event was the Clark Nova typewriter used in...
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Typewriters and the Vietnam War
Having by now developed an eagle eye for typewriters appearing on screens both big and small, I was surprised to see this image pop up on an Australian commercial TV network on Sunday night, during an...
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Fifty Shades of Grey: The Sadism of Selling an Olympia SM3 Portable Typewriter
I know how Brisbane collector Steve Snow felt when he said he had to lessen the pain with a beer or two after lightening his typewriter load by three machines. I own, as of Sunday afternoon, one...
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Underwood Portable Typewriter Case Stand
This case is an Underwood adaptation of a design patented by William John Wade of Toledo, Ohio, in 1956 (he applied for the unassigned patent in 1954). Wade's original idea was for telescoping tubes to...
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Questions on Typewriter Case Stand
I apologise profusely to everyone for not fully explaining and demonstrating the Underwood portable typewriter case stand yesterday. I did the best I could in somewhat trying circumstances (a rushed...
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Boy Who Wanted to 'Make a Typewriter' Instead Became Father of Computer Science
On June 23, 1912, the 44th anniversary of Christopher Latham Sholes' first type-writing machine patent being issued - a date now celebrated across the world as Typewriter Day - Ethel Sara Stoney...
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Thurber's Kaligraph Sells for $40,250
Martin Donnelly, of Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, Avoca, New York, has let me know that Charles Thurber's 1857 and 1860 patent 'Kaligraph', in its original shipping crate, sold for $40,250...
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Rudyard Kipling, J.M.Barrie Talk About Their Typewriters, 1902; Film of...
This must be one of the earliest films of an author using a typewriter - in this case a Corona 3 portable, being used by Irish nationalist politician and journalist Thomas Power O'Connor on his 75th...
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Islands in the Stream of Consciousness: From Typewriters to Spratlys
I just love this photograph. For one thing, it shows a journalist using a tiny typewriter while working under trying conditions, a situation with which I was once very often familiar. Yes, the...
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The Extraordinary Emik Avakian (1923-2013): Inventor of the Breath-Operated...
The death at the age of 89 of Amelian ("Emik") Alexander Avakian, in Chicopee, Massachusetts, on July 11 this year, passed unnoticed by the mainstream media. But between 1952 and 1962, Emik was very...
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