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Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Typewriters
ISBN : 9781487525736
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 : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487537838
This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focuses on "celebrity writers," including Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote prolifically and mechanically, developing routines in which typing, handwriting, and dictation were each allotted important functions. The typewriter de-personalized the text; the office typewriter bureaucratized it. At the same time, some authors found a new and disturbing distance between themselves and their compositions while others believed the typewriter facilitated spontaneous and automatic typing. The Typewriter Century provides a cultural history of the typewriter, outlining the ways in which it can be considered an agent of change as well as demonstrating how it influenced all writers, canonical and otherwise.
Author : Richard Polt
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781581575873
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 : Thomas S. Mullaney
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262536103
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 : Wilfred A. Beeching
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Typewriters
ISBN : 0434901202
Author : Anthony Casillo
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781452155746
“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 : Debra Ramsay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000919936
This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed technologies in shaping the archival records of war. Despite thriving scholarship on the history of war, the history of Operational Record Keeping in the British Army remains unexplored. Since World War I, the British Army has maintained daily records of its operations. These records, Unit War Diaries, are the first official draft of events on the battlefield. They are vital for the army’s operational effectiveness and fundamental to the histories of British conflict, yet the material history of their own production and development has been widely ignored. This book is the first to consider Unit War Diaries as mediated, material artefacts with their own history. Through a unique comparative analysis of the Unit War Diaries of the First and Second World Wars, this book uncovers the mediated processes involved in the practice of operational reporting and reveals how hidden technologies and ideologies have shaped the official record of warfare. Tracking the records into The National Archives in Kew, where they are now held, the book interrogates how they are re-presented and re-interpreted through the archive. It investigates how the individuals, institutions and technologies involved in the production and uses of unit diaries from battlefield to archive have influenced how modern war is understood and, more importantly, waged. This book will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, military history, archive studies and British history.
Author : Friedrich A. Kittler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804732337
On history of communication
Author : L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher : Galaxy Press LLC
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781592121366
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Shorthand
ISBN : HARVARD:HXNZVX
Author : Tony Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1627950346
Filled with trivia and archive photos of writers at their typewriters, Typewriter is a fascinating look at one of the great inventions in history.
Author : Hal Crowther
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609382810
Nearly 60 years after his death, Mencken's memory and monumental verbal legacy rest largely in the hands of literary scholars and historians, to whom he will always be a curious figure, unchecked and alien and not a little distasteful. No faculty would have voted him tenure. Hal Crowther, who followed in many of Mencken's footsteps as a reporter, magazine editor, literary critic, and political columnist, focuses on Mencken the creator, the observer who turned his impressions and prejudices into an inimitable group portrait of America, painted in prose that charms and glowers and endures. Crowther, himself a working polemicist who was awarded the Baltimore Sun's Mencken prize for truculent commentary, examines the origin of Mencken's thunderbolts--where and how they were manufactured, rather than where and on whom they landed.
Author : David Daniel Lessenberry,Mrs. Elizabeth A. Jevon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Typewriting
ISBN : UIUC:30112110162622
Author : Janine Vangool
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Typewriters
ISBN : 1927987016
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Business
ISBN : NYPL:33433035151418