On this typewriter, you were supposed to type one letter with left hand, and another with right, AT THE SAME TIME. http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/duplex.html …pic.twitter.com/7ByZNl1oAG
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On this typewriter, you were supposed to type one letter with left hand, and another with right, AT THE SAME TIME. http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/duplex.html …pic.twitter.com/7ByZNl1oAG
Compare these two to see we haven’t always had Enter/Return, either! It only appeared when typewriters went electric.pic.twitter.com/QANj2dFcA2
Here’s The Empire from 1892, giving Jony Ive some ideas.pic.twitter.com/43JDAQI89O
Oh, Eugen Fitch, you patented the crap out of your typewriter, and it lead you absolutely nowhere. (Compare spacebar to The Empire’s!)pic.twitter.com/4KADamCIrD
This relatively modern Remington Portable is here to remind you TYPEWRITERS ARE REALLY OLD.pic.twitter.com/r7eT32Hsdb
Here’s an executive series of art deco typewriters (Statesman!) marketed for the man of the office – which was rare at the time.pic.twitter.com/0Mnr0zcete
Some time earlier, Remington was visibly struggling with sexism in the office. (“You will be visited by a man.”)pic.twitter.com/V8qYJxBVK9
I like unusual typewriters – here’s another attempt to type in music. And a gorgeous Chinese typewriter next to it.pic.twitter.com/nzKTyVhTBs
I also like typewriters with weird keys… or normal keys, but in weird positions.pic.twitter.com/BhfcRekUsR
This one with a separate C/O (“care of”) key caught my attention…pic.twitter.com/DSOpU7Noa7
…turns out it’s Graphotype, a machine for making labels for commonly used addresses! See it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fg2vdW-lRM …pic.twitter.com/wFR12JxomF
If Graphotype doesn’t strike (*) your fancy, how about Namograph – for labeling pens and pencils? (*) no pen intendedpic.twitter.com/l0F7pEdMSm
Or maybe you’d like a typewriter in your pocket, a century before phones or smartphones?pic.twitter.com/gn6gFeKx3d
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