I bumped into this while googling the phrase "now is the time for all good men to come to the air of the party."
The Early History of the Typewriter, by Charles Edward Weller. Published 1918.
https://archive.org/details/earlyhistorytyp00wellgoog
It's only 87 pages long, including appendix, and seems like the kind of thing we should have in our catalog :)
The Early History of the Typewriter
Kara
http://kayray.org/
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"Mary wished to say something very sensible into her Zoom H2 Handy Recorder, but knew not how." -- Jane Austen (& Kara)
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"Mary wished to say something very sensible into her Zoom H2 Handy Recorder, but knew not how." -- Jane Austen (& Kara)