For the tech-savvy Luddite on your Christmas list.

http://www.uncommongoods.com/product/usb-typewriter

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Rob

I wonder what Carl Sandburg would have thought.

Here's an interesting article on the first typewriter. If Lincoln had lived I wonder if he'd have embraced this device.

   

It was called the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer," and it was produced by the gunmakers E. Remington & Sons in Ilion, NY from 1874-1878. It was not a great success (not more than 5,000 were sold), but it founded a worldwide industry, and it brought mechanization to dreary, time-consuming office work.
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The idea began at Kleinsteuber's Machine Shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the year 1868. A local publisher-politician-philosopher named Christopher Latham Sholes spent hours at Kleinstuber's with fellow tinkerers, eager to participate in the Age of Invention to produce devices to improve the lot of Mankind.

Read more at http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/firsttw.html

(11-21-2013 10:31 PM)Anita Wrote:  If Lincoln had lived I wonder if he'd have embraced this device.

I don't know if he would have embraced it, but he would have said, "Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."

(11-22-2013 05:07 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-21-2013 10:31 PM)Anita Wrote:  If Lincoln had lived I wonder if he'd have embraced this device.

I don't know if he would have embraced it, but he would have said, "Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."

Good quote Roger. It's new to me.