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2 unusual facts about Typewriter


Cavite Institute

It was founded in June 1947 Elisea Kiamzon Belamide originally offering dressmaking, stenography, and typewriting.

Electromechanics

Electric typewriters developed, up to the 1980s, as "power-assisted typewriters".


Alpine, Texas

Alpine was once the home of the American humorist, H. Allen Smith and briefly of novelist, Nelson Algren (Man with the Golden Arm) who stole a typewriter from a classroom at Sul Ross in order to keep writing.

As It Is Written

Based on various evidence including handwriting and typewriter comparisons, and similarities of subject matter and style, they believed the novel to be the work of Clark Ashton Smith using Cass as a pseudonym.

Atlantic House

Rather than containing apparatus for signaling the Kaiser's forces, the box was found to contain a Smith Corona typewriter.

Benn Conger

He was President of the Standard Typewriter Company which was renamed Corona Typewriter Company in 1914, and merged after his death to form Smith Corona.

Birmingham History Galleries

For instance, local poet, Benjamin Zephaniah’s typewriter can be seen in the gallery alongside an oral history in which he talks about growing up and living in Birmingham and how this influenced his career.

Boston Pops Orchestra

Of the many musical pieces created for the orchestra, the Pops' most identifiable works were the colorful novelty numbers composed by Fiedler's close friend Leroy Anderson, including "Sleigh Ride", "The Typewriter" and many others.

Checkpoint Charlie Museum

Our exhibits include: The Charta 77 typewriter, the hectograph of the illegal periodical “Umweltblätter” (“Environmental Pages”), Mahatma Gandhi’s diary and sandals and from Elena Bonner the death mask of her partner Andrei Sakharov.

Chris Gilmour

Through his career and artistic development, there has been a progression in the choice of objects he portrayed, which go from smaller domestic items (like the moka or the typewriter) to objects which are larger and belong to a broader cultural context (the Fiat 500, the Lambretta and, more recently, James Bond's iconic Aston Martin).

Friendship and Freedom

As a result, Gerber's room in a boardinghouse was raided by the Chicago Police Department in July 1925, and everything associated with the publication of the newsletter, including Gerber's typewriter and his personal diaries, were seized.

Henry Gerber, founder of the Society for Human Rights, started publishing the newsletter using his personal typewriter.

H. K. Narayana

This habit of making meticulous scripts came from the days of him being a Copyist with AIR, during the days when the Kannada typewriter was not in much use.

Harvey A. Moyer

During that period, Syracuse was home to four typewriter companies including L. C. Smith & Bros., The Monarch Typewriter Company, Remington Typewriter Company and Smith Premier Typewriter Works.

IBM 1620 Model II

The console typewriter was replaced with a modified Selectric typewriter, which could type at 15.5 cps — a 55% improvement over the Model I.

IBM Selectric typewriter

Aaron Sorkin credits a Selectric typewriter with interesting him in becoming a writer (although he now writes his stories on Apple Macintosh laptops).

Ivrea

During the 20th century its primary claim to fame was as the base of operations for Olivetti, a manufacturer of typewriters, mechanical calculators and, later, computers.

Lucien Stephen Crandall

The Crandall Typewriter was patented in 1881 and manufactured by the Crandall Machine Company of Groton, New York.

Lyman Cornelius Smith

Smith later went on to found the Smith-Premier Typewriter Company, which would later become Smith-Corona Typewriter Company.

Martin Tytell

Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950 based on evidence that extensively relied on claims that documents passed to Soviet agent Whittaker Chambers had been created on a typewriter Hiss and his wife had owned, after the prosecution showed that the typewriter's unique combination of printing pattern and flaws matched those on the documents in question.

Oliver Typewriter Company

In 1928, the Oliver Typewriter Company was sold to investors who formed the British Oliver Typewriter Company in Croydon, England.

Smith Tower

Smith Tower is named after its builder, firearm and typewriter magnate Lyman Cornelius Smith, and is a designated Seattle landmark.

Stereo Type

The piece, which lasts ten minutes, is written for the unusual combination of amplified typewriters and tape.

Telegraph code

(Demand for accented vowels led to the 8-bit ISO 8859-1. Demand for Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and other letters led to many variations of ISO 8859. Demand for using more than one of these sets of letters at the same time led to the 16 bit Unicode. Demand for Chinese characters led to 20-bit Unicode, which clearly is impossible for any typewriter like formed character mechanical teleprinter, although dot-matrix printers can print Chinese characters.)

The Pen Museum

Information at the museum is given through displays and tours by volunteer guides, as well as through demonstrations and ‘hands on’ activities, such as writing with different kinds of pen, early typewriters and Braille machines, and making a pen nib using original factory presses.

The Scandal of Scientology

using her typewriter and paper with her fingerprints on it; further plans included bomb threats to be sent to Henry Kissinger.

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

In it, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the aviator Charles Lindbergh.

Typographica

Contents: Reading by touch; Pat McAuliffe of Listowel; Lettering in Coventry Cathedral; Typewriter type faces; Watching words move (a booklet insert by Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Giesmar).

Ulrich Steinhilper

As a post-war IBM typewriter salesman, he was an early proponent of word processing, considered by some to have either coined the phrase or even originated the concept.

UNIPRINTER

The UNIPRINTER read metal UNIVAC magnetic tape using a tape reader and typed the data at 10 characters per second using a modified Remington typewriter.

Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr.

By age three, the younger Stoner could read and write capably; by six, she could use a typewriter and had had an illustrated book of her poems published; by eight, she spoke at least five languages and had translated Mother Goose into Esperanto ("Patrino Anserino").


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