As we approach the final end of the typewriter, Alan Jacobs finds himself rather lacking in nostalgia.
When Rafik brought afternoon tea into the living room, K.K. could hear the typewriter clacking in the background.
So she covered the typewriter with a raincoat and pushed it aside.
New technologies, such as the typewriter, allowed many women to support themselves financially for the first time, and many flocked to the cities.
Hearing the door close and the tap-tap-tap of the typewriter, I knew she would not come out before it was time for a cocktail.
Books extended outward from both sides of the typewriter for a couple of feet in both directions, all of them written by the occupant.
Among other things, the typewriter helped bring women into offices.
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"Because of this, and the typewriter's importance in the history of business communication, we felt that giving it a home at the Science Museum would be a fitting tribute, " he said.
From the horse-drawn carriage, to the typewriter, to the mechanical watch, to film-based cameras, there is nothing new about the phenomena of innovation upsetting the competitive order and leading to a shakeout where established players fall to the wayside.
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"If people ever ask me, I can always say now, as a strange question, that I've made the last typewriter in the UK, " he told BBC Breakfast's Colin Paterson.
The modern typewriter, descended from the Remington QWERTY design, was introduced in 1873 and had become standardized, and a standard piece of office equipment by 1910.
Edward Bryan, a worker at the factory since 1989, made the last typewriter.
Think of that splendid moment when a TV screen showed Nixon being sworn in for his, hmm, second term while the Woodstein typewriter clacked at his door.
The last one to be made in a factory in Britain rolled off a production line in Wrexham - 183 years after a machine was patented as the first typewriter.
So, the IBM Selectric disrupts the manual typewriter.
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She's trying the cell my typewriter, you know, to finance her next home.
He wrote up contracts with a portable typewriter on the hood of a rental car.
Back then, it was the telephone, high-speed rotary presses, stereotyping, typesetting machines, color presses, rotogravure and the electric-telegraphic 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.
His view of books and libraries as cornerstones of civilization and communities inspired "Fahrenheit 451, " which Mr. Bradbury wrote on a rental typewriter in the basement of a University of California, Los Angeles library.
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It was therefore ironic that his most famous achievement was to build a typewriter at the request of the defence lawyers for Alger Hiss, who was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviet Union.
If his dream was to live in the woods, with a fireplace and a typewriter and sheaves of notes hooked on the wall, almost like a deaf-mute in his dealings with the world, that was his affair.
Turns out he already had an identical typewriter sitting at the other end of the table.
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An old-style Royal typewriter sat at the precise center of a long, heavy antique table.
The risk is that, unless their strictures lead to action, the monitors' job will seem pointless and go the way of the crossing-sweeper, typewriter designer and hula-hoop maker.
Dictated to a secretary using a noiseless portable black Remington typewriter constructed so the keyboard was less distracting to the master-orator one exhibited in the first glass case of the show Churchill's speeches were prepared for delivery in verse form.
Banging away at a typewriter, he ignores the ringing phone next to him, in the age-old tradition of geniuses at work.
One of his first successes: IBM's Model B electric typewriter (a precursor to the Selectric).
The dupes were light green and flimsy, the letters from that Gatling-gun typewriter of his black and distinct.
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