He used a manual typewriter because he felt he could work faster with that than with the electric version.

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He wrote more than 70 books during his lifetime, most of the manuscripts banged out on a 1908 manual typewriter.

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Marshall said Lewis was a humble man who loved vegetable gardening, opera and musicals, and wrote on a manual typewriter until the day he died.

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So, the IBM Selectric disrupts the manual typewriter.

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