First Published in 1973, The Writing Machine presents a
comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only
investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting
typewriters, because of the difficulty of discovering what these
old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors
all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that
he had eventually to limit the scope of his 'history'. There are
hundreds and hundreds of makes and models of 'conventional'
front-stroke, type bar machines with four-row keyboards, but they
were virtually all the same. It is the unconventional ones that are
interesting, and it is on these that the author concentrates. The
book is amusing as well as informative, and it ends with a complete
catalogue of 'unconventional' typewriters manufactured up to the
1930s, when the 'conventional' machine had become universal. This
book is a must read for anyone interested to learn about the
writing machine.
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