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Monarch Typewriter Works Tirelessly Below Sea Level

This US Government worker is typing on a Monarch - below sea level. And I don't mean he is typing aboard a submarine.Beat that!He is typing in a cofferdam.On the night of February 15, 1898, the...

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Tolstoy and His Ремингтонъ десять Typewriter

Typewriter Topics,  August 1911. This article appeared nine months after Tolstoy's death, at the age of 82.In Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy’s manor house.Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев...

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Globetrotting with ozTypewriter

This glorious photograph was taken in St Petersburg, Russia, by 31-year-old typewriter collector Alexander Trofimov. "These technical masterpieces currently enjoy increasing interest in Russia," writes...

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Writers and their Typewriters - How Many Unidentified Models Can You Pick?

Desperately trying to find out what model portable typewriter Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on (he later used an IBM Selectric). In the meantime, here are some other writers and their...

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One-Handed Typewriting

My own relatively minor problems - with a crushed and slowly-healing typing finger on my left hand and a painful right-hand "mouse finger" (carpal tunnel syndrome) and return of RSI in the right wrist...

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MAN AND HIS TYPEWRITER - How Typewriters have a 'Human Side' and are 'Ready...

The first of my typewriters that I thought of when I read this intriguing item in the July 1909 issue of Typewriter Topics was the lovely little Royal Companion portable I brought home with me from...

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Happy Typewriter Day 2014 From Australia

It somehow seemed highly appropriate that this should be on my front door step when I got up this morning, Typewriter Day 2014. It is the cover of an 1899 box of typewriter paper (no, not 20# white,...

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So What Did Happen on June 23, 1868?

Typewriter Day, being celebrated worldwide today with Type Unconventional, marks the 146th anniversary of the first patent (#79265) being granted to Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel...

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How To Play Typewriter Solitaire

"Up for a little challenge this year?" asked Michael Clemens when he launched Typewriter Day 2014. Typing on something other than white paper, typing in something other than red and black, a bit of...

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It's not Pleca, Plite, Elica or Pelite

At a first rough estimate, I thought it was typing at 11 characters to the inch, but it's not. It's Elite (10-point). Anyone seen or heard of a 14 characters to the inch manual portable typewriter?

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Imperial Good Companion Model 7 Portable Typewriter - Design Fault?

When you have two identical manual portable typewriters with absolutely identical problems, you have to suspect a design fault.These two Imperial Good Companion Model 7s arrived with the "booty" of 25...

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'C'est la Vie' Say the Old Folks, It Goes to Show You Never Can Tell

Doesn't look too promising, does it? Not exactly a teenage wedding!When I included this Royal portable in a photo of the 'booty' of 25 typewriters that lobbed at my front gate some weeks ago, a few...

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RIP Eli Wallach (1915-2014)

The Margaret Bourke-White Story with Eli Wallach as German photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt and Teresa Wright as Bourke-White,  November 1959.I was only watching the other night - again - the movie...

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Identifying Fleet Street Newsroom Typewriters

I have had an email from Christopher Long, a British journalist, editor and broadcaster now resident in Le Bosquet, Pont-Farcy, Normandy, France.Christopher wrote, "I’m trying to identify the machines...

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Guest Columnist: Christopher Long

Christopher Long with his Olympia Splendid 66 in his home office in Kensington, London, in 1984.For Mr Long's credentials to write about typewriters and newsrooms, see yesterday's blog post here. In...

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William Kentridge's Typewriters

Take the drawing of an old typewriter, for example. One has a universal image of what an old typewriter looks like in one's head, so there is an image of it, but it will be bland and inaccurate. There...

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The Full Brazilian Typewriter: Let's Cut to the Chase Here, and not Wax...

Avezedo's typewriter. Or is it Azevedo's?Goodness, I wish I was in Brazil right now, instead of Siberian Canberra.Now, before I go any further with this post, is Avezedo considered to be the same...

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The Typewriter The Movie - Coming to a Cinema Near You

The Typewriter is a movie in production in Melbourne, Australia, by Sidebar Productions. It started pre-production last November and is due for completion later this year. It may not reach our cinemas...

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Stott Model Twenty Portable Typewriter = Messa-ABC 2000, Sears Chevron

This Portuguese-made Stott Model Twenty portable typewriter appeared on Australian eBay tonight (#171372262876). It is a re-labelled Messa 2000, also marketed as an ABC 2000 and the Sears Chevron....

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Tarting Up a Royal KMG Typewriter

Sacrilegious, I know, but a bit of fun too. And don't fret, Ryan, it still works perfectly well...Australian "royalty" (King O'Malley) between two re-vamped "booty" Royals ...

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