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Author | : Martyn Lyons |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Typewriters |
ISBN | : 1487525737 |
As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices.
Author | : Richard Polt |
Publisher | : The Countryman Press |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1581575874 |
The connoisseur's guide to the typewriter, entertaining and practical What do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters—the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter, how to care for it, and what to do with it—from National Novel Writing Month to letter-writing socials, from type-ins to typewritten blogs, from custom-painted typewriters to typewriter tattoos. It celebrates the unique quality of everything typewriter, fully-illustrated with vintage photographs, postcards, manuals, and more.
Author | : Wilfred A. Beeching |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Typewriters |
ISBN | : 9780951679005 |
Author | : Thomas S. Mullaney |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262536102 |
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounters—in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter. The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters actually constructed was invented by a Christian missionary, who organized characters by common usage (but promoted the less-common characters for “Jesus" to the common usage level). Later came typewriters manufactured for use in Chinese offices, and typewriting schools that turned out trained “typewriter girls” and “typewriter boys.” Still later was the “Double Pigeon” typewriter produced by the Shanghai Calculator and Typewriter Factory, the typewriter of choice under Mao. Clerks and secretaries in this era experimented with alternative ways of organizing characters on their tray beds, inventing an input method that was the first instance of “predictive text.” Today, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. The Chinese Typewriter, not just an “object history” but grappling with broad questions of technological change and global communication, shows how this happened. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Author | : Anthony Casillo |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1452155747 |
“Typewriter expert and collector Anthony Casillo presents a visual homage to the device that revolutionized correspondence” (The Florida Times-Union). From the creation of the QWERTY keyboard to the world’s first portable typing machine, this handsome collection is a visual homage to the golden age of the typewriter. From the world’s first commercially successful typewriter—the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer of 1874—to the iconic electric models of the 1960s, eighty vintage devices are profiled in elegant photographs and fascinating text that highlights the design modifications, intricate details, and peculiar quirks that make each typewriter unique. From functional advances like noiseless machines to luxurious details such as mahogany covers and inlaid mother-of-pearl, a century of design innovation and experimentation is charted in these pages. Packed with visuals and rich with history, Typewriters is the essential story of a writing invention that changed the world. Includes a foreword by Tom Hanks Praise for Typewriters “A Love Letter to Vintage Typewriters.” —Wall Street Journal “This is sure to delight typewriter lovers and those interested in machine or design history.” —Library Journal
Author | : David Daniel Lessenberry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Typewriting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Janine Vangool |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Typewriters |
ISBN | : 9781927987018 |
A richly illustrated book full of never-before published typewriter memorabilia, intriguing historical documents and entertaining anecdotes, The Typewriter: a Graphic History of the Beloved Machine is a beautiful ode to an all-but-obsolete creative companion."--Publisher's website
Author | : L. Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : Galaxy Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1995-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1592121365 |
Modern man Mike de Wolf gets stranded in a pirate adventure being written by his friend Horace Hackett and finds himself fighting for his life as the villainous Miguel de Lobo, while trying to figure out how to extricate himself from Horace's fatal plot.
Author | : Friedrich A. Kittler |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780804732338 |
On history of communication
Author | : Tony Allan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781627950343 |
Filled with trivia and archive photos of writers at their typewriters, Typewriter is a fascinating look at one of the great inventions in history.