Information Age.

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Space Efficiency.

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Schreibmaschinenwalzen erneuern

 

Schreibmaschinenwalzen erneuern. Der Gummi, mit dem Schreibmaschinen- walzen beschichtet sind, kann fiber die Jahre spréde werden. Als Folge davon kann der Anschlag der Maschine sehr hart werden, aber auch Lécher durch den kaum gebremsten Einschlag der Typenhebel im Papier en$stehen. In Europa gibt es noch folgende Unternehmen, die Walzen neu beziehen: Christian Hartig GmBH Hofheim D www.serv1ce-tools.de 06192 921650 Tel. (+41)765l9l660 Walzen Sud Leonberg, DE Quelle: HBW-Aktuell info(at)p-roehlig.de 07/2012 Tel. 07152 553769 TGW Typ-Gummi Werke Christian Hartig maschinengeschrieben.blogspot.com Swissa piccola This awesome post was brought to you by the mighty Typosphere

Multiplicity.

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Guetsli.

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Eight Times Carbon Paper.

Update 10.1.2013: Miguel tested it on a Selectric.

Update 15.1.2013: Miguel did it on a Lettera 32.

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Standby Noise.

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A typewriter wouldn't do this.

Some other piece of office machinery.

Some other type of office machinery. Millenia ago, men counted items with their fingers. They invented stone carvings, abaci, thousands of different methods to do number work. But they wanted to calculate bigger numbers, multiply more and add faster. The adding machine was a dream of mankind, and the first adding machine was invented in 1623 by Wilhelm Schickard, but they weren't mass-produced until the mid of the 19th century. As with typewriters, there was a broad variety of basic priniples for adding machine. Some could only mult add and suctract, but the more interesint machines can multiply and divide as well. Very advanced models could even calculate the square root of a number, automatically. If crank-operated, without electricity. In 1908, the MADAS (Multiplication, automatic division, addition, subtraction) calculating machine was first produced in Zurich. In 1935, the MADAS 16 entered production. It is a massive machine, weighing 12 kg and featuring a keyboard of 8x9 number keys. But watch the MADAS l6L in action: This awesome post was brought to you by the mighty Typosphere

a half thought?

winter solstice

Typing through Adwoa's Collection

 

discrete typewriter storage.

Photo by Adwoa.

Typing through Adwoa's Collection, on the occasion of the Type-Hunt in Geneva.

Patria/SWISSA prices - Then and today

A new design.

or here.

Abgetippt: SWISSA piccola design

typewriters.ch

Herbsttag. Rainer Maria Rilke.

Better, loosely translation:

The man without a house will build no more, 

the man without a mate will sole remain, 

will wake, will read, write letters long with pain

and walk the boulevards, restless to the core,

where falling leaves are drifting with the rain.

(Walter A.Aue)

The Collection: SWISSA piccola

No Abgetippt today, because the Type-In post is really big and deserves attention.

All-Swiss Type-In

Excited Georg. He found a military model-Hermes Media.

Three different Hermes Medias.

A well-filled thrifth store. We found a total of 8 typewriters inside.

Typecast. English Typecast.

Trying to find out what fonts we discovered.

At Salvation Army. There were also 5 typewriters. We bought two.

Today's "bag". Read also sommeregger.blogspot.com and genevatypewriters.blogspot.com