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The Great New Zealand Journalist Bernard Diederich: Melville, Conrad,...
“I only possess a passion for the truth. And if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.”- Bernard DiederichBernard Diederich typing his copy on a Remington-Rand...
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Remington's 'Bewitching Damsels' fail in Melbourne but win in Launceston
This list of awards won by the Remington Typewriter Company at expositions around the world between 1873 and 1915 was published as an advertisement in Typewriter Topics in January 1916. Note that...
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Typewriter Revolution Reaches Main Reading Room, National Library
I called into the National Library in Canberra this morning to do some typewriter research and, lo and behold, there was Richard Polt's The Typewriter Revolution prominently displayed in the "new on...
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It Won't Be the Same Without the Big Fella: Not Even A Clockwork Vader
Is that a prototype of the Vader suit in the background?The latest Star Wars movie opens here today, but of course it won't be the same without the Big Guy, David Prowse as Darth Vader. David, now 80,...
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Fixing the Flying I on a Triumph Norm-6 Portable Typewriter
The typeslug "Ii" on this lovely burgundyTriumph Norm-6 portable typewriter had decided to sprout wings and take flight. It seems someone must have toggled it and snapped the clip underneath it - a...
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Using a Typewriter on a Matrix-Composing Machine: Henry Hutchins Hardinge's...
Henry Hutchins Hardinge's short-lived Ogden Rowotype (1912-1914) was particularly aimed by the inventor at small town US newspapers and printers. It offered them the dual economic advantage of...
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What to Get Dad for Christmas
This photograph was taken by John Chaloner Woods for the British version of Good Housekeeping magazine for its Christmas 1963 edition. It was captioned "Suggested Christmas presents for a working man -...
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Out to Christmas and Ridin' the Range with a Underwood packin' Colorado...
Legendary Denver Post journalist Robert Wesley "Red" Fenwick - the man behind the "Ridin' the Range" column and the 1977 rebirth of the "Hole in the Wall Gang" - left this "Out to Christmas" note on...
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Titillation With Typewriters
Around the time Tim Berners-Lee was born, in 1955, young boys got their sex education from their almost equally uninformed schoolmates and, if their older brothers conveniently left them hidden under...
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Doomsday On My Mind
ThenLaterOnly two rock stars have ever said to me, "You don't look so effing good yourself." One was on a balmy Sunday night under a big top at Straffan House in County Kildare in the middle of...
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The Typewriter You Will Eventually Carry: Give Wings to Words with the...
Paying Homage to Lee Spear Burridge on the Centenary of his Creation of the Underwood 3 Portable TypewriterI'd been searching for a decent image of Lee Spear Burridge for almost five years, and finally...
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A Pictorial Tribute to the Underwood Standard Portable Typewriter
How could one man pack so much into so little space? I'm in awe.Burridge's other masterpiece, the Sun No 2
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2016: The Year of the Typewriter?
*Words are Winged:Yes, here's that Sun No 2 again, on someone's T-shirt.Everything works fine on mine except that the ink poddoesn't swing across to brush the typeslug on its wayto the printing point,...
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The Spirit Typewriter: Outing Ouija with the 'Edison of India'
Popular Science, February 1921Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (1893-1974) is these days referred to as the "Edison of India". However, more than two years before Naidu's National Electric Works at...
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The Hammond in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll's Typewriter Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll's Hammond Model 1 typewriterwith Ideal keyboard (serial number 5621), sold to him by Witherby and Company of 74 Cornhill, London, on May 3, 1888 (when the author was 56) and now in the...
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Briefly Blick-Bar
March 1 this year will mark the 100th anniversary of the long-awaited launch of the Blick-Bar frontstrike standard typewriter. Many typewriter histories list the Blick-Bar's birth as 1913, but the...
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Crouching Tiger, Not So Hidden and Not So Noiseless Guard Cat
Danny's cat knows to stay Noiseless ...
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