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Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing
By Bruce Curtis, Anthony Casillo and Tom Hanks
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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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marred by the almost inconceivably ill-advised decision to compose with an "fi" ligature glyph in the monospaced courier typeface the book is set in. (Bonus horrible-points for having a typo in the sentence of the "Acknowledgments" in which he is thanking the publisher's team for being so great.) Also surprising: not a single Olympia represented. This is a book of oddities, not a history.