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Oliver Hess and One Helluva Typewriter
Ever wonder where mid-20th century filmmakers and TV producers got their ideas for what alien spacecraft might look like? That is, flying saucers. Well, wonder no more. Here, surely, is the...
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A Merry Man With The Munson: Choosing a Typewriter (at the Right Price) in...
Alfred JanesAlfred Janes was a London political journalist of 20 years standing when on January 26, 1894, he wrote to Frank Harrison, editor and publisher of the influential Boston-produced Shorthand...
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Oberwager’s Typewriter and the Sour Grapes of McCarthy’s Wrath
· Jerry Oberwager’s typewriter was used to bang out the lyrics of Woody Guthrie’s great song, Tom Joad· Woody Guthrie recorded Tom Joad using a...
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Bringing the Typosphere Together, Nine Years On
I was delighted to be invited by Portland, Oregon, blogger Bill Guthrie (The Typewritemosphere) to take part in a series of Question and Answer interviews he has been conducting. My responses to Bill's...
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Magnus Messenger, Typewriter Boy
I know this is ridiculous, but my 13½-month-old grandson has been bitten by the typewriter bug. Magnus’s craze started a week or so ago when I was showing him the three portables that are sitting in...
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Sundown Hurried Too Quickly for the Typewriting Bert Gilden
Seen here at his Royal KMH typewriter is successful author Bert Gilden. Successful author? Bert Gilden? Never heard of him, one might well say - even though his first novel, published on January 8,...
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Big Bodies and Grunt Galore: 1965 Typewriters and Automobiles
One of the things I'm eagerly anticipating in 2021 is a series of planned group sessions at which I will show people how to take typewriters apart, perform rudimentary repair work (such as reattach...
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Ann Sothern Blossomed Around Typewriters
We saw an array of delightful typewriter cakes on Richard Polt’s The Typewriter Revolution blog the other day, including Ted Munk’s typewriter wedding cake. But how about this flower typewriter...
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Typing of a Hard Day's Night: I.F. Stone and Newsletters
I.F. Stone at his Facit T1 typewriter.I wasn’t at all surprised to find there were gaps in Anna Wiener’s “Critics at Large” article, “You’ve Got Mail”, in the January 4-11 issue of The New Yorker. I...
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Bigger Cars, Smaller Typewriters
Inspired by comments from Bill MacLane, Richard Polt and Bill Guthrie (I had a couple of Triumph Spitfires in the 1970s too, Bill, but my first car was a Morris Mini), and a thorough analysis from...
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Typewriting Sidney Wood: Won Wimbledon Without Pulling on a Plimsoll
The Australian Open, the first leg in 2021 Grand Slam tennis, has somehow managed to reach a conclusion this weekend in the face of all sorts of Coronavirus setbacks in Melbourne. Given Britain’s...
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A Different Kind of Advice on Typewriters
Oh Beatrice Fairfax, give me the bare facts,How do you make them fall?If you don't save me, the things the Lord gave meNever will be any use to me at all.Last week The New Yorker ran a “Cultural...
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Giuseppe Ravizza's Cembalo Scrivano: An Early Typewriter or a Vain Obsession?
A young woman at a Ravizza cembalo scrivano prototype in 1860. Two woman try the 1846 Ravizza cembalo scrivano and an Olivetti M1 at the Museum of Novara,...
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Well-Heeled Radical at a Typewriter
In its 1998 obituary forAlfred Mitchell Bingham, The New York Timessaid Bingham was “a well-born, well-heeled radical who made a broken field run through 20th Century intellectual history, coming of...
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Vaccines and Typewriters
In early April 1955, the much-travelled Professor Pierre Lépine writes a report on his effective polio vaccine on an Underwood portable typewriter.The April 11,1955, issue of LIFE magazine, the one...
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52 Ways To Find A Spot for Your Typewriter
These 52 images bring to mind some of the weird and wonderful places I had to find to type newspaper copy in various parts of the world – from the banks of the Nile in Luxor, a sheep paddock in Wales,...
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Ancient Kauri Trees and Typewriters
“Kauri trees mark magnetic flip 42,000 years ago” was the heading on an article by Paul Voosen in last week’s issue of Science magazine. “Using a remarkable 42,000-year-old [New Zealand] kauri tree...
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She acted as if she Hated Typewriters, but there was no reason for the FBI to...
“You know what I hate?”“What?”“Typewriters”--- Jean Seberg, as Christina James, to one of her lovers, British foreign correspondent Walter Beddoes (Stanley Baker), In The French Style (1963). At the...
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10 Years of ozTypewriter
ozTypewriter turned 10 today. To celebrate, my wife took me on a three-hour tour of Canberra's op-shops, antique stores and recycling barns. It was a unique opportunity for me, one not to miss - here...
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