Famous Writers and Their Typewriters

Author Meg Waite Clayton shares not only the famous writers (and songwriters) who've used typewriters but also the models they used.

Writer's Digest
Rogers also patented typewriter ribbons, letter-envelopes and manifolding paper as well as a variety of other items. #officehistory #carbonpaper #history #writinghistory
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The image is of handwriting on the back page of a sheet of carbon paper. #officehistory #carbonpaper #history #writinghistory #modernoffice
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The first carbon paper was created by soaking thin paper in ink and then drying it between blotting paper. #officehistory #carbonpaper #history #writinghistory #modernoffice
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Legal documents in England, for example, were written in what was known as "court hand" or "law hand" as per this image. #officehistory #history #writinghistory #modernoffice
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It changed the production of printed pages from around 40 when they were done by hand to around 3,600 using the press. The image is a reproduction Gutenberg press in use from the International Printing Museum. #printingpress #history #writinghistory #gutenberg
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The image is Korean movable metal type from 1377 used to print "Jikji". #history #writinghistory #movabletype
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The next development in movable type was the use of carved wooden types in 13th century China by Wang Zhen who developed a revolving typecase. This image is from his 1313 book "Nong Shu". #history #writinghistory #movabletype
This image of the Buddha was created by using ceramic movable type Chinese characters and was printed in 1103. #history #writinghistory #movabletype
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