Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Typewriters - Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing - cover

Typewriters - Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing

Anthony Casillo

Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

“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
Available since: 10/17/2017.
Print length: 208 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Making Medicine Scientific - John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science - cover

    Making Medicine Scientific -...

    Terrie M. Romano

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A biography of the English physician and scientist and a history of the advancement of science in the Victorian era. 
     
    In Victorian Britain, scientific medicine encompassed an array of activities, from laboratory research and the use of medical technologies through the implementation of sanitary measures that drained canals and prevented the adulteration of milk and bread. Although most practitioners supported scientific medicine, controversies arose over where decisions should be made, in the laboratory or in the clinic, and by whom—medical practitioners or research scientists. In this study, Terrie Romano uses the life and eclectic career of Sir John Burdon Sanderson (1829-1905) to explore the Victorian campaign to make medicine scientific. 
     
    Sanderson, a prototypical Victorian, began his professional work as a medical practitioner and Medical Officer of Health in London, then became a pathologist and physiologist and eventually the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. His career illustrates the widespread support during this era for a medicine based on science. In Making Medicine Scientific, Romano argues this support was fueled by the optimism characteristic of the Victorian age, when the application of scientific methods to a range of social problems was expected to achieve progress. Dirt and disease as well as the material culture of experimentation —from frogs to photographs—represent the tangible context in which Sanderson lived and worked. Romano’s detailed portrayal reveals a fascinating figure who embodied the untidy nature of the Victorian age’s shift from an intellectual system rooted in religion to one based on science. 
     
    “A useful entry in the canon of science and public health . . . an antidote to the hubris of recent claims of accomplishment.” —Choice
    Show book
  • FBA Product Sourcing Blueprint - How to Find Evaluate and Hire the Best Suppliers at the Best Prices for Your Fulfillment by Amazon Business - cover

    FBA Product Sourcing Blueprint -...

    Red Mikhail

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Want to learn how to find, evaluate, and hire the best suppliers for your Amazon FBA Business?  
    Learn how to avoid losing thousands of dollars on a potentially wrong order and a wrong supplier. 
    In this book, we are going to focus our attention on finding suppliers, negotiating the best prices, shipping our products and making sure that it reaches Amazon’s fulfillment center so we can start selling it on Amazon.com as soon as possible. 
    Here's a preview of what you'll discover:The 12 point criteria to use in evaluating suppliers... so you'll know if they are legit or not5 easy to apply methods of finding suppliersExactly what to look for in a supplier + a cheat sheet you can use before you make your first orderHow to negotiate for the best prices by using numbers and logicThe exact message I send to suppliers the first-time I approach them... get this one wrong and you'll look like a noob to their eyesHow the shipping process works from A-ZHow to ship your products directly to Amazon's warehouse (step by step with screenshots)The best shipping options available and what to pick depending on your goals and financial situationFBA barcodes, fees, and other expenses you should be aware of9 of the best tips that I can give when it comes to working with suppliers so you can build a long term WIN-WIN relationship 
    One of the best ways to increase profit margin is to work with the right supplier. 
    Invest in this guide and avoid the same mistakes most beginner e-commerce entrepreneurs make. 
    GET YOUR COPY TODAY.
    Show book
  • Growing and Marketing Ginseng Goldenseal and other Woodland Medicinals - cover

    Growing and Marketing Ginseng...

    Jeanine Davis, W. Scott Persons

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The most comprehensive, truly practical guide to the cultivation of woodland botanicals Not all saleable crops are dependent on access to greenhouses or sun-drenched, arable land. Shade-loving medicinal herbs can be successfully cultivated in a forest garden for personal use or as small-scale cash crops.  Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and other Woodland Medicinals  is a complete guide to these increasingly popular botanicals, aimed at aspiring and experienced growers alike.In this fully revised and updated edition, authors Jeanine Davis and W. Scott Persons show how more than a dozen sought-after native species can generate a greater profit on a rugged, otherwise idle woodlot than just about any other legal crop on an equal area of cleared land. With little capital investment but plenty of sweat equity, patience, and common sense, small landowners can preserve and enhance their treed space while simultaneously earning supplemental income. Learn how to establish, grow, harvest, and market:Popular medicinal roots such as ginseng, goldenseal, and black cohosh;Other commonly used botanicals including bloodroot, false unicorn, and mayappleThe nutritious wild food, ramps, and the valuable ornamental galax.Packed with budget information, extensive references, and personal stories of successful growers, this invaluable resource will excite and inspire everyone from the home gardener to the full-time farmer. Jeanine Davis  is an associate professor and extension specialist with North Carolina State University. Her focus is helping farmers diversify into new crops and organic agriculture. W. Scott Persons  is the author of  American Ginseng: Green Gold  and an expert in growing and marketing wild-simulated and woods-cultivated ginseng.
    Show book
  • Tokens - The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform - cover

    Tokens - The Future of Money in...

    Rachel O’Dwyer

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Wherever you look, money is being replaced by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things, from phone credit, to shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, and customer data. These tokens are used to turn invisible stuff into assets, to pay wages, to track purchases, and to program and specify the terms of financial and political access and inclusion. What does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps, or actions, politics, or identities?By exploring the history of experiments in extra-monetary economies, O'Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always ghosted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon's Turk workers getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trading in wish lists. Gamers working for virtual gold. Coined memes selling for thousands. Bitcoin, gift cards, NFTs, customer data, and game tokens are the new money in an evolving economy. This challenges the balance of power between online empires and the state. For platforms, tokens can be an extra-regulatory sleight of hand. But for everyday users, workers, and online subcultures, tokens can also be subversive, a way of imagining what money could be, now and in the future.
    Show book
  • Insomnia No More: A Comprehensive Meditation Program for Deep Sleep - Discover the Power of Meditation to Overcome Insomnia for Good - cover

    Insomnia No More: A...

    Sandeep Verma

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Improve Sleep Quality: This course explores the importance of sleep & its impact on health. Learn yogic breathing practices, meditation, & lifestyle changes to restore natural rhythms, overcome sleep problems, & gain sharper mental function, abundant energy, positive mood, & alertness. Ideal for those with occasional or chronic insomnia.
    Show book
  • Extra Sensory - The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind - cover

    Extra Sensory - The Science and...

    Brian Clegg

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Extra Sensory is a pop-science look at the untapped abilities of human beings, from ESP to Telekenesis and other real life sciences that are currently being studied today, from physicist Brian Clegg. We'd all love to have 'psi' abilities like telepathy, telekinesis, and remote viewing. But is there any solid evidence to back up these talents, or are they nothing more than fantasy? We still only understand a small percentage of the capabilities of the human brain—and we shouldn't dismiss such potential powers out of hand. Although there is no doubt that many who claim these abilities are frauds, and no one has yet won James Randi's $1M prize for demonstrating ESP under lab conditions, we still have a Nobel prize winner suggesting a mechanism for telepathy, serious scientists researching the field and university projects that produced potentially explosive results. What's the verdict? By looking at possible physical mechanisms for ESP and taking in the best scientific evidence, the reader can discover if this is all wishful thinking and deception, or a fascinating reality. The truth is out there.
    Show book