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Guest post: The Man Who Rescued Typewriters, by Bill Meissner
--After finding a Coronamatic electric typewriter with 4 nonfunctioning letter keys. The machine was still able to type the words “typing with missing keys”They call his name. They always do.Whenever...
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Royal P Vogue
Just a view of a typewriter I got about a year ago. This 1931 Royal P is in near-new condition and features the coveted Vogue typeface. (You can download a digital version from my website.)
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1960 Torpedo 18b
I'm currently teaching an intensive online course (on the philosophy of nature), so I don't have much time for this blog. It's easy enough, though, to post some photos of favorite typewriters.This...
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Typewriters of the Times: Salinger edition
Every Sunday, the New York Times seems to include at least one reference to typewriters, or an illustration of one. In today's Book Review, Ali Fitzgerald suggests that social distancing may be making...
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The Blunderwood Portable, reborn
The Blunderwood Portable was a highlight of Burning Man 2015.Photo by Michael HoldenAt the end of the festival, the sculpture was burned down.But a wealthy art collector in Mexico commissioned the...
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Guest post: The IBM Model D Executive typewriter
I'm glad to present a guest post by Peter Stuart. Peter is known among typewriter collectors as an expert on typefaces, including the proportional typefaces offered on IBM Executive typewriters. He was...
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Typewriters of the Times: Maxine Kumin's Hermes
Today's New York Times contains some of the worst, most depressing news I have seen in a depressing year. But an effective away to avoid grim reality is to focus on our tiny areas of expertise and...
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The thing called freedom
On April 1, I asked:Downtown Cincinnati, March 28, 2020:Now we have an answer:Downtown Cincinnati, June 7, 2020 (WVXU photo):
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Guest post: Disassembling a Smith-Corona Zephyr
The Smith-Corona Zephyr, introduced in 1938, was the company's response to the Hermes Baby — a light, compact typewriter that could easily be taken on a trip. The design was a success, especially in...
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Brian Sonia-Wallace's The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling...
Brian Sonia-Wallace appears in The Typewriter Revolution as a member of L.A.'s Melrose Poetry Bureau. (That's him on the right in the upper left photo.)Brian is also a successful independent street...
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Midsummer miscellany
I don't have a well-developed topic for a post, but thought I would publish a few notes on my recent activities.I continue to bike around Cincinnati in the early morning, before it gets too hot. Here's...
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Rem-Blick bikecast
nrw = new, brainstotm = brainstorm Robert's postwatchibg = watching, ahe = the, prina = print
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Typewriters of the Times: robot meets typewriter
As always, the New York Times continues to remind its readers of the symbolic power of typewriters. This Sunday's contribution comes from cartoonist Tom Gauld.PS: Can robots really write? Some...
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