Description: Despite its role as one of the most transforming innovations in modern business, the typewriter has largely been neglected by historians, with the exception of this very rare, superbly illustrated volume. First published in 1923 by the trade journal Typewriter Topics, it constitutes an illustrated history of the mechanical marvel designed to supersede handwriting. Every typewriter known to that date is included -- over 280 different models, from such lesser-known machines as the Yu Ess (as in U.S.), Dactygam, Dollar, and Ford to the products of such major typewriter pioneers as Hammond, Oliver, Remington, L. C. Smith, and Underwood. Also included are company histories and period advertisements. While this inexpensive republication, enhanced with a new Introduction by Victor M. Linoff, will prove invaluable to collectors and historians, it will also delight nostalgia buffs and anyone even casually interested in the evolution of the remarkable machine that changed the face of written communication.

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