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The Typing Life.(Critical essay)
Many of the early inventors of the typewriter thought that what they were inventing was a prosthetic device for the blind. Why would ordinary writers need a writing machine? They had pens. Eventually, it became clear that such a mechanism could benefit the seeing, too, but, as we find out in "The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting" (Cornell; $29.95), by Darren Wershler-Henry, a professor of communication studies in Ontario, almost two centuries, roughly the eighteenth and the nineteenth, passed before that hope was realized. There was no single moment of discovery, no lone inventor crying "Eureka!" in a darkened laboratory. On the contrary, historians estimate ...
- Against type? What the writing machine has wrought.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Krystal, Arthur December 1, 2002 700+ words
...books that treat the typewriter from a social and manufacturing...s Century of the Typewriter, and Bruce Bliven Jr.'s The Wonderful Writing Machine. Most recently there...illustrated Mechanical Typewriters, which not only provides...historical gloss on the typewriter's early ...
- Typewriters were revolutionary.(COMMENTARY)
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) August 20, 2009 700+ words
...little machine known as the typewriter. The typewriter is dear to men in all walks...first "chirographer" or "writing machine" in 1843. It was a cumbersome...it plainly foreshadowed the typewriter. The first practical typewriter...
- The typewriter.
- Magazine article from: Popular Mechanics Rehrer, Darryl August 1, 1996 700+ words
...and transportation, the typewriter did the same thing for the...too busy reading what the typewriter had written about all the...grabbers. The story of the typewriter begins in 1868, when a multitalented...Sholes came up with a crude writing machine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
- A typewriter may be old-fashioned, but it still has that magic.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor January 11, 2007 700+ words
...utter the word "typewriter." Apparently...IBM Selectric typewriter, the Cadillac Eldorado of typewriters in its day. Soon...processors, a manual writing machine is about more...black Royal typewriter I have on my desk...
- typewriter
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
...01-1988 type|writ|er (tip'rit|r) n. 1. a writing machine with a keyboard, for reproducing letters or figures that...printed ones 2. a style of printer's type that looks like a typewriter print 3. early term for typist Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988...
- Amazing Writing Machine and Alien Tales: Broderbund enlivens classic literature...
- Magazine article from: Macworld Minnick, Dave Minnick, Robin June 1, 1996 700+ words
...S ESTIMATED PRICE: $45. Amazing Writing Machine RATING: Three Stars/6.8 PROS...Broderbund's new products--Amazing Writing Machine and Alien Tales--develop traditional...nontraditional fashion. Amazing Writing Machine Amazing Writing Machine inspires kids...
- The Amazing Writing Machine. (Broderbund Software children's educational...
- Magazine article from: Computer Shopper Holzberg, Carol S. November 1, 1995 700+ words
The Amazing Writing Machine Broderbund Software 500 Redwood...Broderbund Software's The Amazing Writing Machine is a boisterous and kid-friendly...writing projects. The Amazing Writing Machine offers creative inspiration as...
- Broderbund Software Gives Kids a Tool to Help Them Write, Paint and Publish in...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 13, 1995 700+ words
...released just such a tool, The Amazing Writing Machine. This inventive writing, illustration...familiar Kid Pix interface, The Amazing Writing Machine combines writing, drawing and desktop...the CD-ROM version of The Amazing Writing Machine includes nine thematic writing ...
